Latest Updates
Adult social care | Friday 30 April 2021
Social Welfare Update: Secretary of State was correct as to the responsibility for funding accommodation at Transitional Rehabilitation Unit when determining ordinary residence under National Assistance Act 1948
Blog post by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. R (on the application of Lancashire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, v JM and St Helens Council [2021] EWHC 268 (admin); HHJ Eyre QC
Children, Migrant support | Friday 30 April 2021
Social Welfare Update: High Court confirms urgency - and mandatory obligations - for Local Authorities to progress EUSS applications on behalf of children and care leavers
Blog post by Gráinne Mellon of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. Re W and Re Z (EU Settled Status for Looked After Children) [2021] EWHC 783 (Fam), 31 March 2021
Adult social care | Friday 30 April 2021
Social Welfare Update: High Court holds a patient was "ordinarily resident", for the purposes of funding s 117 aftercare, in second local authority's area immediately before second period of detention
Blog post by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. R (on the application of Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2021] EWHC 682 (Admin): Linden J
Children, Health care | Friday 30 April 2021
Social Welfare Update: Parental responsibility and access to puberty blockers for transgender children
Blog post by Ollie Persey of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. AB v CD & Ors [2021] EWHC 741 (Fam)
Adult social care, Capacity, Court of Protection | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Capacity and best interests in relation to Covid-19 Vaccination
E (Vaccine) [2021] EWCOP 7, Mr Justice Hayden, 20th January 2021
Capacity, Court of Protection | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Would receipt of a Covid-19 vaccine be in a mentally incapacitated person’s best interests when other treatments are proposed by a family member?
SD v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea [2021] EWCOP 14
Welfare benefits | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Suspension of DLA after 28 days in hospital did not violate Article 14 ECHR, in case of an adult patient with severe learning disabilities
MOC (by MG) v SSWP (DLA) [2020] UKUT 134 (AAC)
Welfare benefits | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Denial of bereavement support payment to family of a deceased woman who had been unable to work and pay NI contributions due to severe disability breached ECHR
O'Donnell v Department For Communities [2020] NICA 36
