Law and the Social Work Practitioner : a Manual for Practice by Rodger White; Graeme Broadbent; Keith Brown

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DHSS (1985) Review of Child Care Law. London: HMSO DHSS (1987) The Law on Child Care and Family Services (White Paper, Cm 62). London: HMSO. Gillick v W Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [1986] 1 AC 112 (relates to question of informed consent). B. of (1987) A Child in Mind (Kimberley Carlile Report). London: Greenwich LBC House of Commons (1984) Children in Care (The Short Report). London: HMSO Lambeth, L. B. of (1987) Whose Child? (Tyra Henry Report). London: Lambeth LBC Department of Health and Home Office (2003) The Victoria Climbie´ Inquiry Report (The Laming Report), Cm 5730.

Your aim should be to understand the system within which you have to work. Much of the knowledge you acquire will not arise directly in your practice, but underlies the substantive law and processes which you will encounter and is necessary for your understanding of these matters. This includes knowing about the roles of other professionals within the system in order to be able to relate to them effectively. The purpose of this chapter is to identify certain basic features of the legal system you should know about.

Questions Most, but not all, of the following questions have been taken from Twining and Miers (1999). 1. What do you think is meant, in this instance, by the phrase ‘the rule of law’? 2. In How Lawyers Think (1937), Clarence Morris wrote: ‘Problems occur in gross. The unit, which appears to be a single problem at a first glance, is usually a complex of related difficulties, a confluence of more specific problems. ’ continued 12 Chapter 2 Interpreting rules: a domestic and a statutory example continued Explain how this quotation is relevant to the nature of the mother’s problem in the story.

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