Local Authority Children Lawyer - The Essentials
BPP Professional Education
Summary
- Tutor is available to students
Location & dates
9-10 Portland Place
West London
London
W1B1PR
United Kingdom
Overview
SRA Competence
B, C
Overview
You will be guided through this technical, often complex and rapidly changing area of law in an easy, logical and approachable manner. The course will equip you with the appropriate law and practice, so as to be become more confident with local authority procedures. Practitioners acting for parents, families and children will also find this course useful.
CPD
Description
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Identify the steps needed for care proceedings and emergencies
- Explain the law and practice on contact, as well as duties and regulations
- Explain the law and practice on secure accommodation, and in particular the statutory regulations and reviews
- Understand child protection conferences, what occurs and steps thereafter.
- Describe different type of assessments, and in particular, the single assessment and other expert assessments
- Understand ‘Working Together,’ Care Planning Regulations and Reviews
- Work effectively under the Public Law Outline
- Understand Adoption and Permanency Panels
- Explain the Adoption Agencies Regulations and ‘Parallel Planning’
Under the SRA’s new approach to continuing competence, solicitors are expected to use the Statement of Solicitor Competence to identify and address their learning and development needs. The competence statement requires the following competencies:
- A - Ethics, professionalism and judgement
- B - Technical legal practice
- C - Working with other people
- D - Managing themselves and their own work
Course Dates
Who is this course for?
This course will be of benefit to practitioners new to this area or those needing to refresh their knowledge. This course may also be beneficial to social workers and case workers.
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