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Child in need cases opened up to non-social work staff despite risk concerns

Community Care

Case for opening up child in need role In its consultation on the plans, the DfE suggested this would enable staff already working with families – including family support workers, drug and alcohol practitioners, domestic abuse workers and youth workers – to take on the lead practitioner role.

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Reform Mental Health Act and implement LPS: new ADASS president’s message to next government

Community Care

Leftover social care reforms MHA reform: this would reform the 1983 act to lower the thresholds for detention in hospital and community treatment orders and exclude autistic people and people with learning disabilities from being detained for treatment without a co-existing mental health condition.

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No funded social care commitments in Labour manifesto

Community Care

We will explore how we best manage and support an ageing population; how integration with the NHS can be secured; how to best support working age disabled adults; and how to move to a more preventative system.”