Acting for Parents & Carers in Care Proceedings - A Guide with Claire Wills-Goldingham KC

Introduction

As a practitioner who has been involved in care proceedings over many years - for parents, local authorities and children - you become aware of many traps and pitfalls, as well as what can work to your client’s best advantage, whilst never misleading the Court or failing in your overarching professional duties.

The daunting prospect for a parent with vulnerabilities and how to help them - the skills you all possess yet maybe not recognise in yourself.

Cases are becoming more complex- not simply the sheer volume of disclosure - in particular social media downloads, late police disclosure, concurrent criminal investigations and their impact.

Mental health - what issues you may face and how to support parents through care proceedings - what you need to look out for, where you can find assistance.

This webinar will give you some fresh approaches to the issues that you come across which you can take into your own working environment.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Vulnerabilities - Learning disability
• Capacity
• IMCA
• PAMs assessments
• Section 20 Use
• Law change - long term option
• Criminal Proceedings or Possibility
• FPR PD
• Stn 98 - what this means in practice
• Disclosre/ PII
• How to approach the above
• Mental Health
• Impact - disclosure - from where
• IMHA - what it means and its role
• When you need an expert and where you don’t

This webinar was recorded on 7th August 2024

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