Child Protection and the Family Court: What You Need to Know

3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-5265-0597-2
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 608 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

Child protection made simple: the plain-speaking guide for all those concerned with the protection of children.
Providing a clear and uncomplicated route through the child protection process. Diagrams and charts are included to aid understanding; jargon and acronyms are only included in order to explain them and key court decisions are explained in their proper context.

In addition to coverage of local authority safeguarding duties and investigations, parental responsibility, wardship and the inherent jurisdiction and secure accommodation, new content in this edition includes:

A chapter on special guardianship, helpful for those who find themselves involved in legal proceedings without access to legal aid, such as grandparents
Developments in cases involving:

Radicalisation
Adoption
Children or parents who are nationals of a foreign country
The introduction of the Child Arrangements Programme for private law

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Family Law online service.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcfarlane, Andrew

Reardon, Madeleine

Laing, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Family Court

Chapter 2 Introduction to Child Protection

Chapter 3 Parental Responsibility and Disputes between Parents

Chapter 4 Local Authorities and the Family

Chapter 5 Referrals, Assessments and Emergency Intervention

Chapter 6 Care and Supervision Orders

Chapter 7 Adoption

Chapter 8 Special Guardianship

Chapter 9 Secure Accommodation and Deprivation of Liberty

Chapter 10 Medical treatment and other complex issues: The High Court's Inherent Jurisdiction

Chapter 11 Challenging the local authority

Appendix 1
Children Act 1989, ss 1-50

Appendix 2
Adoption and Children Act 2002, ss 1, 18-29, 42-52, 66-68, 83-95

Appendix 3
Family Procedure Rules 2010, parts 1, 12, 14, 25 and 30 and practice directions 12A, 12B, 12J, 25B, 25C

Appendix 4
Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families

Appendix 5
Schedule of Items in Relation to the Exercise of Parental Responsibility

Appendix 6
Key Extracts from Important Judgments

Über Autor(innen)

Laing, Alexander
Alexander Laing is a barrister practising at Coram Chambers. Alex specialises in children and finance law, particularly cases with an international element. He is the current Family Law Awards: Junior Barrister of the Year (2020), which is the top category under KC, having been the only member of the Family Bar ever twice to have won the Family Law Awards: Young Barrister of the Year (2018 and 2016). Alex is the only lawyer to appear in the four UK Supreme Court cases about family law over the past two years, including the current Family Law Awards: Case of the Year (2020). He is the only 'Rising Star' at the UK bar for both finance and children in Legal 500, 2021 and was the most junior family barrister to be ranked in Chambers and Partners, 2020.

Reardon, Madeleine
Her Honour Judge Madeleine Reardon

Mcfarlane, Andrew
The Rt Hon Sir Andrew McFarlane is President of the Family Division, England and Wales.

Lord Justice Andrew McFarlane
Madeleine Reardon, barrister, 1KBW

Alexander Laing, barrister, Coram Chambers.