Running Care Cases - A Guide with Safda Mahmood

Introduction

Care cases continue to rise and the court has provided essential guidance on best practice.

Are you familiar with the various stages both pre-proceedings and once the matter gets into court? Are you familiar with the difference between the case management hearing and the issues resolution hearing? What happens at each?

This webinar will answer these questions and more.

This webinar will also enable you to become more familiar and confident with advising and assisting at each stage of the process, whether you are acting for the local authority, parents, extended family members or the children.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Steps to take upon instruction
• Differences between s.37, 47 and 7 Children Act 1989?
• Volume 1 of the Children Act Guidance - what are the essentials?
• Child Protection Conferences, legal planning meetings and pre-proceedings meetings - what is the difference?
• Law Society guidance on children meetings
• Working together guidelines, child and family assessments, timescales, and duties
• Documents upon issue - use of SWET Forms
• Use of standard orders
• Party status, joinder and parentage issues
• When should threshold be determined?
• Parent’s Response Document - what is to go in there?
• Advocates meetings - who is to go and what do in need to do?
• Case management hearing - what directions are required?
• Issues resolution hearing - what is this hearing designed for, and what must you do for this hearing?
• When may there be a need to apply to extend the 26 weeks - consideration of Re S (A Child)

This pre-recorded webinar will be streamed at 12:30pm on Friday 16th December 2022 and will remain available to view by delegates who have registered by then for 90 days.