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How Appropriate Does “Appropriate Treatment” Need To Be? Introduction The recent decision in SF v Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and ... Read More
The Online Safety Act 2023 – a canter through The Aim of the Online Safety Act The UK’s long-delayed Online Safety Act has finally become law afte... Read More
The Powers of Attorney Act 2023 – how far does it go to protect the vulnerable? Introduction to the Powers of Attorney Act 2023 The Powers of Attorney Act 2023 received Royal Assen... Read More
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Supreme Court clarifies position on treatment options in “one of the most important” medical negligence cases. Following the highly publicised Supreme Court case of McCulloch and others v Forth Valley Health Boa... Read More
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National Deprivation of Liberty (DoL) Court The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (NFJO) recently reported that the National Deprivation of Li... Read More
DoLS Enforcement - Supervisory Bodies and BIAs Have a Long Way to Go The recently published Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman decision following the complaint o... Read More
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The National Framework for Children & Young People’s Continuing Care: An Overview Bond Solon trainer and subject matter expert Francesca Burfield, provides an overview of the Nationa... Read More
An Introduction to the English revised National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare The 2018 National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care and the associ... Read More
Will the creation of multi-agency child protection units be the solution? The independent review of children’s social care (May 2022) and the National child safeguarding prac... Read More
Government launches their Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan 2022 Domestic abuse has never been higher on the political or public agenda. In fact, the Office for Nati... Read More
Covid-19 Public Inquiry Since the outbreak of the global pandemic, you and your staff have undoubtedly experienced some of t... Read More
Record Keeping: If It Isn’t Written Down, It Didn’t Happen Our subject matter expert and solicitor, Max Duddles explores how important it is for health and soc... Read More
An Introduction… to Wales’ CHC Framework and the Decision Support Tool The 2014 CHC Framework and the Decision Support Tool (DST) underwent a review in 2019 and the revise... Read More
HSJ Partnership Awards declares the partnership led by Bond Solon as a winner in the Project Procurement of the Year category We are proud to announce that following a rigorous judging process involving a wide panel of judges ... Read More
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Private law claim by council for extraordinary care costs The statutory duties on NHS bodies and local authorities around the provision of health and social c... Read More
Make sure your DoLS house is in order The London Borough of Haringey v Emile (2020) MHLO (CC) case involved a contested determination of d... Read More
Section or DoLS The Great Interface Dilemma The results are in! 832 health and social care professionals (including 387 section 12 qualified Doc... Read More
Putting the MCA at the heart of children’s services The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Children’s Social Care - Is it a storm waiting to happen?With a lit... Read More
Consent and Capacity and the legal framework for Covid-19 vaccine With yesterday’s exciting news of the rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in the fight against... Read More
An update on the Liberty Protection Safeguards The Liberty Protection Safeguards will provide protection for people aged 16 and above who are or wh... Read More
Informed Consent: The Medico-Legal Minefield The GMC’s new “Decision Making and Consent" guidance (link here) came into force on 9th November. It... Read More
The new MCA and DoLS guidance – what you need to know Has the Mental Capacity Act 2005 withstood the pressure of the ever increasing ramifications of COVI... Read More
Government reintroduces NHS Continuing Healthcare after COVID 19 pandemic period The current pandemic has impacted many areas of people’s lives and none more so than the amendments ... Read More
Localised lockdown in Leicester … where next (1) Following a ‘spike’ in the number of people contracting coronavirus in Leicester a Statutory Instrum... Read More
The Mental Health Act and Covid-19 Are Psychiatric Hospitals Still Acting Lawfully? It is understandable that various public health me... Read More
Do not prioritise LPS but re-focus on MCA As we discussed in our article last week which, if you missed, you can read here, we commented that ... Read More
Covid-19 and the impact on MCA/DoLS Has the Mental Capacity Act 2005 withstood the pressure of COVID-19 and remained core business as us... Read More
Domestic Abuse The Ramifications of Lockdown While the need for the government to implement lockdown measures during the current pandemic is unde... Read More
Social worker suspended for twelve months for copying and pasting information Following a recent Social Work England tribunal, a social worker has been suspended from the registe... Read More
Finalist for the HSJ Partnership Awards 2020 We are delighted to announce that the partnership between Bond Solon and NHS England and NHS Improve... Read More
Making Safeguarding Core Business - Our work with NHS England Making Safeguarding ‘Core Business’ across the NHS Safeguarding is everybody’s business. It means... Read More
Landmark judgment on deprivation of liberty In the matter of D (a child) 2019 UKSC 42 (Hale, Carnwath, Black, Lloyd-Jones and Arden SCJJ) The S... Read More
Supreme Court Judgment What does this mean for local authorities? On the 6th June 2019, the Supreme Court handed down its ground-breaking decision in the case of Pool... Read More
Supreme Court Judgment - DoL & Community Treatment Order On Monday 17th December 2018 the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the case of Welsh Ministe... Read More
Human Rights at the core of Health and Social Care This year is 70 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and 20 years since the... Read More
Human Factors in Complaints Investigations In the normal course of investigations, information obtained from complainants, witnesses and those ... Read More
Important Update - Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill Last week saw the third reading in the House of Lords of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill which ... Read More
Supreme Court Judgment on Conditional Discharge & DoL - MM Case On 28 November 2018, the Supreme Court handed down the long-awaited judgment in the case of Secretar... Read More
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill On the 3rd of July 2018, the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill was introduced into the House of Lords... Read More
Significant Changes for Safeguarding From 1st April 2018 the entirety of The Children and Social Work Act 2017 came into force. This leg... Read More
The Government responds to the review of DoLS - what does this mean? On Wednesday 14 March 2018, the Government formally responded to the Law Commission’s recommendation... Read More
Continuing care application for Children and Young People Most social workers, team managers, group managers and financial controllers express concerns that s... Read More
Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: What can be done? Child sexual exploitation by its very nature is a global threat and the UK is said to be leading the... Read More
Revised Practice Direction 12J Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, has issued a revised Practice Direction 12J of th... Read More
DoLS Reforms – What happens next with Law Commission’s Recommendations? Following last month’s publication of the final Mental Capacity and Deprivation ... Read More
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Inquests – Change in the Law Under law reforms that came into force on the 3rd April 2017, Coroners will no longer be required to... Read More
Important Supreme Court Judgment - Fraught Interface between public law and best interests On Wednesday 22nd March 2017, the Supreme Court handed down their judgment in the case of N v ACCG... Read More
The Law Commission's final Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards report and draft Bill - Now Published The Law Commission published its final report on reform of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, in... Read More
Landmark judgment on deprivation of liberty in hospitals R (Ferreira) v H M Senior Coroner of Inner South London & Ors (2017) EWCA Civ 3 (Court of Appeal... Read More
Why are people "misunderstanding" Re B? Following the recent decision by the Court of Appeal whereby they ordered a rehearing because the so... Read More
RCM Bond Solon Legal Birth Conference - 11.07.2016 Bond Solon and the Royal College of Midwives recently held the 8th annual Legal Birth Conference on ... Read More
A Brexit BIA - Keep Calm and Carry On (08/07/2016) One month before the EU referendum was held, the Law Commission published their Interim Statement on... Read More
Ofsted Annual Social Care Report - 01.07.2016 In the recently published Ofsted annual report on the state of children's social care in England, a ... Read More
Applications for Care Orders reach Record Level - 15/04/2016 Cafcass have revealed figures showing a 14% increase in applications for care orders in 2015/16 comp... Read More
BBC Radio Wales - Taking Liberties? 21/03/2016 As the leading provider of legal training for social care professionals, BBC Radio Wales wanted to h... Read More
MoJ study: the use of experts in family law Changes to the way the family court can instruct experts were reflected in Family Procedure Rules on... Read More
In whose best interest? 29-05-2015 Lawyer Andrew Andrews explains the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and how it applies to midwives and decis... Read More
What are you doing to create an open and honest reporting culture? - 19.05.2015 “The overarching Principle is that every organisation needs to foster a culture of safety and learni... Read More
Call for research posters: RCM Legal Birth Conference - 08.05.2015 Would you or a colleague like to share your research or best practice papers at the Royal College of... Read More
Mark Solon on BBC World Service - 9.4.2014 Mark Solon was invited to take part in a BBC World Service programme on the cross-examination faced ... Read More
Social workers as expert witnesses in Family Courts – 8.11.2013 VIDEO Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division for England and Wales, spoke at this year’s Ann... Read More
Swearing in court - 7.11.2013 Should we scrap the oath, asks Mark Solon A proposal to scrap the oath on the Bible or other holy b... Read More
Family Fortunes - 27.09.2013 The single family court to be introduced next April hopes for few but better expert witnesses. "Fewe... Read More
NHS pays out £470,000 a day for medical negligence in London The compensation bill for NHS blunders has soared with some London trusts doubling the amount paid o... Read More
Want more information? Please call us on...020 7549 2549If you require any help or would like to discuss how Bond Solon can assist you in your training needs, please call us on: +44 (0) 20 7549 2549
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