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Child Care and Protection: Law and Practice 7th edition

Safda Mahmood, Julie Doughty

ISBN13: 9780854903061

Previous Edition ISBN: 9780854902682

Published: September 2024

Publisher: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing

Country of Publication: UK

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“...the breadth of legal topics covered, along with their application and use within practice is striking...with specific references and analysis on updating legislative provisions, regulations, practice guidance, and case law…each chapter has a break-down of the issues that one must bear in mind. All practitioners have to do is read it, apply it, and reap the benefits… would definitely recommend this book to other practitioners.”. Review in Pink Tape by Dominik Morton, St John’s Chambers

"I would thoroughly recommend it as a readable and practical tool to assist the busy practitioner" - Family Law review of the previous edition

The new edition of this popular title has been extensively updated to provide a practical guide to the complexities of the Children Act 1989 and subsequent child protection legislation, guidance and case law. Among the developments included in this edition are:

- the changes brought about by the Public Law Outline in January 2023 to family justice, particularly in relation to expert evidence, time limits, care plans and delay;

- the law surrounding deprivation of liberty as it relates to children, regarding the interface between care proceedings and Article 5 ECHR, and consideration of key case law, such as Re T (A Child) [2021] UKSC 35;

- the revision of Practice Directions, such as PD12A (Care and Supervision Proceedings and other Part 4 Proceedings: Guide to Case Management), Child Arrangements Programme (PD 12(B), and Revised PD12J – Domestic Abuse and Child Arrangements, Pilot Reporting and Private Law Review;

- significant case law developments in children law since publication of the last edition; and

- the revised edition of Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023), which has changed the position in relation to safeguarding and child death reviews, as well as assessments.

Subjects:: Family Law, Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, Social Work, Children

Contents:: Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures and Tables; 1. Glossary and Legislative Framework; 1.1 Glossary of basic definitions; 1.2 Orders available under the Children Act 1989; 1.3 Introduction to the Children Act 1989; 1.4 Changes to the Children Act 1989 introduced with the Family Court in 2014; 2. Principles Underlying the Children Act 1989; 2.1 Paramountcy of the welfare of the child; 2.1.1 Welfare checklist; 2.2 Delay is deemed prejudicial to child’s interests (the impact of the Public Law Outline); 2.3 No order unless necessary in the interests of the child; 3. Parental Responsibility; 3.1 Definition, powers and duties of parental responsibility; 3.1.1 Duration; 3.1.2 Parental responsibility and medical consent:; Young people aged 16 and over; Children aged under 16; 3.1.3 What if there is no one with parental responsibility?; 3.2 Legal position of child’s birth mother; 3.3 Legal position of child’s father; 3.3.1 Married fathers and those who are civil partners; 3.3.2 Unmarried fathers; 3.4 Acquisition and loss of parental responsibility by child’s birth father; 3.4.1 Parental responsibility order; 3.4.2 Parental responsibility agreement with the mother; 3.4.3 Joint registration of the birth by father and mother; 3.4.4 Child arrangements order, specifying living with, and parental responsibility; 3.5 Acquisition of parental responsibility by others; 3.5.1 Relatives; 3.5.2 Step-parents; 3.5.3 Non-relatives; 3.5.4 Guardianship; 3.5.5 Special guardianship order; 3.5.6 Parental responsibility, surrogacy and; the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008; 3.5.7 Parental orders under section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology; Act 2008; 3.6 Public funding in children cases; 3.6.1 Public funding changes; 4 Every Child Matters: Child Protection Procedures in Health and Social Work; 4.1 Safeguarding partners, child safeguarding practice reviews, child practice reviews and child death review partners; 4.1.1 Safeguarding partners and child safeguarding practice reviews; 4.1.2 Child death review partners; 4.1.3 Child practice reviews; 4.2 Hierarchy within social services departments; 4.3 Referral procedures and preliminary investigations; 4.3.1 Involving the child; 4.3.2 Involving families and information sharing; 4.4 Child protection conferences; 4.4.1 Purpose; 4.4.2 Who should be invited to a child protection conference?; 4.4.3 Documents; 4.4.4 Decisions to be made and actions to be taken; 4.4.5 Categories of abuse; Emotional abuse; Neglect; Physical injury; Sexual abuse; 4.4.6 Criteria for discontinuance of the child protection plan; 4.5 Assessment of risk; 4.6 Child protection plan; 4.7 Child and Family Court Advisory Support Service; 4.8 Local authority duty to promote welfare of children in its area; 4.8.1 Duty to investigate potential or actual harm to child; 4.8.2 Local authority duty to children in need; 4.8.3 Services for children and their families; 4.8.4 Duty to children aged under 5; 4.8.5 Compliance with court order to investigate child’s circumstances, section 37 of the Children Act 1989; 4.8.6 Looked after children: responsibility of the local authority; 5 Emergency Protection Orders; 5.1 Effects of order; 5.2 Duration; 5.3 Grounds for application; 5.4 Practice and procedure; 5.4.1 Application; 5.4.2 Respondents; 5.4.3 Applications made without notice (previously referred to as ex parte applications); 5.4.4 Notice; 5.4.5 Service; 5.4.6 Attendance; 5.5 Contact, accommodation and the rights of the child; 5.5.1 Contact; 5.5.2 Accommodation; 5.5.3 Rights of the child; 5.6 Variation and discharge; 5.7 Exclusion requirement under emergency protection order; 5.7.1 Two notes of caution; 5.8 How do ‘without notice’ orders and Article 6 of the ECHR fit together?; 5.9 Emergency applications and newborn children; 5.9.1 Out of hours emergency protection order applications; 6 Child Assessment Orders; 6.1 Effects of order; 6.2 Grounds for application; 6.3 Practice and procedure; 6.3.1 Application; 6.3.2 Venue; 6.3.3 Respondents; 6.3.4 Notice; 6.3.5 Service; 6.3.6 Generally; 6.3.7 Discharge of order; 6.4 Contact, accommodation and the rights of; the child; 6.4.1 Contact; 6.4.2 Accommodation; 6.4.3 Rights of the child; 6.5 Appeals, variation and discharge; 7 Care and Supervision Proceedings; 7.1 Care order – definitions; 7.2 Grounds for application for a care or supervision order; 7.3 Significant harm; 7.3.1 Standard of proof; 7.3.2 Linking harm or likelihood of harm to the facts and test for separation; 7.4 Practice and procedure; 7.4.1 Applicants and public funding; 7.4.2 Venue; 7.4.3 Form; 7.4.4 Respondents; 7.4.5 Notice and court actions on issue; 7.4.6 Service; 7.4.7 Attendance; 7.5 Interim orders; 7.6 Effects of care order; 7.6.1 Duration; 7.6.2 Parental responsibility and care plans; 7.6.3 Proportionality, kinship care and local authority accommodation of the child; 7.6.4 Planning transition to adulthood; 7.6.5 Contact with a child in care; 7.6.6 Rights of the child in care proceedings and under a care order; 7.6.7 Rights of parents of a child in care; 7.7 Public Law Outline – principles, ‘fact-finding hearings’, issues resolution, interim and final hearings; 7.7.1 Main principles of the Public Law Outline (Practice Direction 12A); 7.7.2 Various parts of Practice Direction 12A; 7.7.3 Fact-finding hearings/split hearings; 7.7.4 Practice Direction 12A checklists; Pre-proceedings checklist; Stage 1 issue and allocation; Stage 2 advocates meeting and case management hearing; Stage 3 advocates meeting and issues resolution hearing; Stage 4 final hearing (if necessary); 7.8 Assessments and care planning; 7.9 Effects of supervision order; 7.9.1 Interim orders; 7.9.2 Duration of care and supervision; 7.9.3 Directions in supervision orders; Directions to the child; Directions to a ‘responsible person’; 7.9.4 Enforcement; 7.9.5 Designated local authority; 7.10 Removal of child from care; 7.11 Variation, discharge and appeals; 7.11.1 Variation and discharge; Applicant; Notice; Respondents; 7.11.2 Appeals; 7.12 Effects of the Human Rights Act 1998 on care and supervision proceedings; 8 Secure Accommodation and Deprivation of Liberty Orders; 8.1 Restricting liberty with a secure accommodation order; 8.1.1 Safeguards; 8.1.2 Criminal cases (secure orders); 8.1.3 Use of secure accommodation in civil cases; 8.2 How long can a child be kept in secure accommodation?; 8.2.1 Where no court order made; 8.2.2 Secure order (child on remand in a criminal case); 8.2.3 Civil cases and children not on criminal remand – secure accommodation orders; 8.2.4 Adjournments; 8.3 Grounds for application; 8.3.1 Children detained in criminal cases; 8.3.2 Children in civil cases; 8.3.3 Deprivation of liberty and secure accommodation; 8.3.4 Welfare of the child and secure accommodation; 8.4 Practice and procedure; 8.4.1 Application; 8.4.2 Forms; 8.4.3 Venue; 8.4.4 Respondents; 8.4.5 Notice; 8.4.6 Service; 8.5 Role of the children’s guardian; 8.6 Contact; 8.7 Rights of the child; 8.7.1 Reviews; 8.7.2 Attendance at court; 8.7.3 Public funding; 8.7.4 Right to legal advice; 8.7.5 Age of child; 8.8 Appeals and the Human Rights Act 1998; 8.9 Deprivation of liberty orders; 8.9.1 What constitutes a deprivation of liberty?; 8.9.2 Applications for a deprivation of liberty order and the National DoL List; 8.9.3 Use of the inherent jurisdiction and position surrounding the child’s consent; 8.9.4 Court of Protection and deprivation of liberty applications; 8.9.5 Shortage of placements and ongoing difficulties; 8.9.6 Deprivation of liberty orders and enforceability in Scotland; 8.9.7 Unregistered placements and supported placements; 9 Education Supervision Orders; 9.1 Effects of an education supervision order; 9.2 Duration; 9.3 Grounds for application; 9.4 Practice and procedure; 9.4.1 Application; 9.4.2 Venue; 9.4.3 Notice; 9.4.4 Respondents; 9.4.5 Service; 9.5 Rights of the child; 9.6 Variation, discharge and appeals; 9.6.1 Appeals; 10 Police Powers under the Children Act 1989; 10.1 Police powers and responsibilities; 10.2 Contact with child; 11 Instructions and Case Preparation in Family Proceedings; 11.1 Action plan on receipt of instructions from an adult or local authority; 11.2 Interviewing clients; 11.2.1 Checklist for information from parents; 11.2.2 Checklist for Public Law Outline requirements on information from local authorities and social workers; 11.2.3 Checklist for basic initial information from medical witnesses; 11.2.4 Working with parents with a learning disability and participation directions; 11.3 Preparation of the case; 11.4 Burden of proof and standard of proof in child law cases; 11.5 Special evidence rules in child law cases; 11.5.1 Character; 11.5.2 Best evidence and hearsay; 11.5.3 Opinion; 11.5.4 Statements made by children’s guardians; 11.5.5 No professional privilege for medical or psychiatric reports; 11.5.6 Case management hearings – ordering the evidence; 11.6 Court procedure at the hearing; 11.6.1 Notes of evidence; 11.6.2 Order of evidence; 11.6.3 Extent of evidence; 11.6.4 Case management hearing/issues resolution hearing: key checklist matters for advocate to consider; 11.7 Courtroom skills; 11.7.1 Court manners; 11.8 Transparency; 11.8.1 Media attendance and reporting hearings; 11.8.2 Objections to attendance; 12 Children’s Rights; 12.1 To accept or refuse medical treatment; 12.1.1 Children aged over 16 (but under 18); 12.1.2 Children aged under 16; 12.1.3 Children who lack capacity to make a decision; 12.1.4 Where no available person has parental responsibility; 12.2 To accept or refuse medical or psychiatric assessment; 12.2.1 Circumstances in which the court may direct medical or psychiatric examination or assessment which the child has a right to refuse; 12.3 To make his or her own application to the court; 12.4 To request confidentiality and, in the event of disagreement with the children’s guardian, to instruct a solicitor separately; 12.5 Rights of a child in care; 12.6 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; 13 Other Orders available to the Court in Family Proceedings; 13.1 Orders in family proceedings; 13.2 Section 8 orders; 13.2.1 Leave to apply; 13.2.2 Considerations on application for leave; 13.2.3 Duration; 13.2.4 When the court may not make an order under section 8 of the Children Act 1989; 13.2.5 Welfare reports in applications under section 8 of the Children Act 1989; 13.3 Contact (spending time with, or otherwise having contact with); 13.3.1 Contact disputes; 13.3.2 Activity orders; 13.4 Prohibited steps; 13.5 Residence (living with); 13.5.1 Residence and parental responsibility; 13.6 Specific issue; 13.7 Supplementary provisions; 13.8 Practice and procedure in applications under section 8 of the Children Act 1989; 13.8.1 Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings and non-court dispute resolution; 13.8.2 Applications; 13.8.3 Venue; 13.8.4 Notice of application for orders under section 8 of the Children Act 1989; 13.8.5 Respondents; 13.8.6 Service; 13.8.7 Applications made without notice (formerly known as ex parte procedures); 13.8.8 Withdrawal, variation, discharge and appeals; 13.9 Family assistance order; 14 Commencement and Transfer of Proceedings; 14.1 General rules; 14.2 Applicants and allocation of family case; 14.2.1 Proceedings which must be commenced in the Family Division of the High Court; 14.2.2 Proceedings which must be commenced in the Family Court; 14.3 Transfers; 14.4 Urgent applications; 15 Working with Children; 15.1 Appointment and role of the children’s guardian; 15.1.1 Official Solicitor; 15.1.2 Public funding, access to information and disclosure; 15.1.3 Specified proceedings; 15.2 Conflict between children’s guardian and child; 15.2.1 Confidentiality; 15.3 Should I see my child client?; 15.3.1 Meeting a child client; 15.3.2 Decisions concerning a child’s competence; 15.4 Taking instructions and communicating with children; 15.4.1 Guidelines on effective meetings and communication with children; 15.5 Child development; 15.6 Understanding your child client – race, religion, culture and ethnicity; 15.7 After the case is over; 15.8 Judges seeing children in children law proceedings; 16 Assessment of Children in Need and Care Planning; 16.1 Developments and materials; 16.1.2 Resources for professionals; 16.2 Assessment Framework; 16.3 Care planning; 16.4 Adoption issues; 16.4.1 Legislation and other materials; 16.4.2 Independent Review Mechanism; 16.4.3 Publications; 17 Appeals and Enforcement; 17.1 Appeals and judicial review; 17.1.1 Appeal process and when permission is required; 17.1.2 Time limits for notice and procedure; 17.1.3 If permission is refused; 17.1.4 When will permission be granted?; 17.1.5 Judge sitting in Family Court appeals; 17.1.6 Lay justices/magistrates appeals; 17.1.7 Circuit judge or recorder appeals; 17.1.8 Judge of High Court Judge level appeals; 17.2 Complaints procedures; 17.3 Enforcement; 18 Expert Evidence; 18.1 What is an expert witness?; 18.2 Choosing and instructing expert witnesses; 18.2.1 Funding issues and prior authority from the Legal Aid Agency to instruct expert witnesses; 18.3 Expert witness evidence; 18.3.1 Expert instruction checklist; Permission, consents and preliminary enquiries of experts; Letters of instruction; Updating, expert conferences, agreed evidence and points in issue; Expert reports; 18.4 Expert evidence in court; 18.5 Finding the right expert; 18.5.1 Registers and directories; 18.5.2 Online resources; 19 Improving Law, Skills and Practice; 19.1 Professional and interdisciplinary associations; 19.2 The Law Society’s Children Law Accreditation; 19.3 Sources of useful information and contacts for children and families, and those who work with them; Index