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

by Andrew McFarlane, Madeleine Reardon, Alexander Laing

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526505965
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/08/2019
Series:	Bloomsbury Family Law
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	456
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Lord Justice Andrew McFarlane
Madeleine Reardon, barrister, 1KBW
Alexander Laing, barrister, Coram Chambers.
The Rt Hon Sir Andrew McFarlane is President of the Family Division
Her Honour Judge Madeleine Reardon
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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

The book is clear, sensibly laid out and effort is made to avoid overly complex or 'lawyerly' language...I applaud the aim of offering this text to the widest possible audience. I think it would be difficult to improve upon the structure and the topics of this text.” —ICLR

“It is easy to see the book becoming the go-to guide and point of reference for people whose work touches the area of safeguarding children.” —Family Affairs, 2019

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