Public Law Children Update

Public law children update, covering the key caselaw and practice guidance since January 2023. This session will cover recent public law children updates, including authorities.

Learning Objectives:

• Section 20: long-term use?
• Fact-finding hearings: when (not) to have them, and what we might miss
• Secure accommodation: the ongoing crisis
• DoLS
• Party status
• Habitual residence
• Adequacy of reasoning and requests for clarification
• Stays pending permission to appeal
• Forced Marriage Protection Orders

The session will also include updates on:

• The PLO relaunch, including challenges to expert reports
• The Portal
• The transparency pilot
• Guidance on learning disabilities
• The Government’s response to the Care Review