Luke Clements is the Cerebra Professor of Law at Leeds University.
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BASW Cymru membership survey on the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
Following its annual conference in June 2017 – The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 – One Year On , BASW Cymru ran a survey to gather the views…
Sarah Meakins from Cardiff University and her colleagues have recently published a paper in Adoption and Fostering on findings from the Wales Adoption Study. This paper will be of particular…
Difficult questions require a ‘plan’: ‘transitions’ as an example.
Robert Graves’ in his autobiography ‘Goodbye to All That’ describes how he, his wife and their small children were in urgent need of a house to rent in Oxfordshire –…
A ‘What’s New’ post contributed by Priya Bahri of the Disability Law Service. Autistic children and care assessments – the problem of local authority eligibility criteria’s. Background. The Disability Law…
A previous Rhydian posting flagged up profound deficiencies in the Welsh Government’s NHS Continuing Care (CHC) guidance for children and young people. This posting has now been developed into a…
A good friend of mine has Parkinson’s and I think we all need to better understand the impact of this relentless disease – especially to ensure we do mistake the…
Disabled Facilities Grants and Young People in Wales
The enactment of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 has raised challenging questions about the procedure by which Welsh local authorities process ‘disabled facilities grants’ (DFGs). A paper…
The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 came into force two years ago. To mark the anniversary Keith Bowen has written an Opinion Piece for The Rhydian: On-line Journal…
A ‘What’s New’ post contributed by David Laurence of the Disability Law Service. Disabled people are entitled to have reasonable adjustments made in their workplace conditions in order to ensure…
A new LLM in Law & Social Justice LLM - click here for details. Posts being advertise in the field of family, child, labour, housing, health care law and legal…
NHS continuing care funding for children & young people in Wales.
In Wales (as in England) social services provide significant amounts of healthcare to disabled and ill young people, which legally should be funded by the NHS. Although (in my opinion)…
The power of Cafcass Cymru to make applications to the court in response to a referral from a local authority independent reviewing officer in child protection cases was mistaken revoked…
The Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 gained Royal Assent on the 24 January 2018. The Act will, when it comes into force, reform Special Education Needs Law in Wales. …
Sarah Coldrick, legal consultant with AFA Cymru and Julie Doughty of Cardiff Law School have produced an accessible guide to the legal framework governing the Adoption process. It is aimed primarily at prospective adopters…
The Welsh Government has published its first National Population Assessment. The report was commissioned by Government and delivered by Social Care Wales. Click here for a briefing on the report.
The Welsh Government has published the results of its report on the state of ‘well-being’ in Wales: Measuring national well-being: A report on the national outcomes framework for people who need care…
Carers UK carries out an annual survey of carers to understand the state of caring and uses the findings to inform the Governments of the four nations on the experiences…
The Consultation on proposal for an Autism Act in Wales has now closed. Click here for the response submitted by Julie Burton Law, a firm of solicitors based in North Wales.
Austerity is no excuse for a service led response to need[1]
The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales (PSO) upheld a complaint concerning Gwynedd Council. Although the case predates the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 the findings are wholly relevant to…
The legal and administrative processes in adoption
Julie Doughty and her colleagues Sarah Meakings and Katherine Shelton at Cardiff University have published a new paper ‘The legal and administrative processes in adoption: views and experiences of newly…
Carers Wales have published their second Track the Act briefing. For the English language version click here and for the Welsh language version click here This is a welcome publication as it relates to the experiences…
A new paper concerning The Influence of Adoption on Sibling Relationships by Sarah Meakings Amanda Coffey Katherine H Shelton has been published in the British Journal of Social Work: to access and to download click…
This case has been brought to our attention by the Transparency Project whose primary aim is to make Family Law clearer. In the judgment His Honour Judge Gareth Jones rejects a local…
R (Luke Davey) v. Oxfordshire CC Court of Appeal 2017
People in Wales in receipt of the Independent Living Grant, the Welsh Government’s interim measure to soften the blow of the closure the Independent Living Fund (ILF) would have followed R (Luke Davey) v…
Humanising Services & Building Communities (i.e.co-production –how the hell do you do it)
Jenny O’Hara Jakeway CEO of Credu-Connecting Carers In this thought provoking and challenging paper, Jenny O’Hara Jakeway examines the opportunities afforded by the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 and…
Adult Social Care Social Enterprises and the Foundational Economy in Wales
Professor Ian Rees Jones Director of WISERD While population ageing, generational conflict and the crisis in social care appear to make regular newspaper headlines, it is striking that clear solutions to the…
Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care In Wales – Interim Report
An interim report has been published by the Independent Review of Health and Social Care in Wales, which was set up by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport…
Paul Davies AM proposes to introduce a Private Members’ Bill – The Autism (Wales) Bill – having won the Assembly ballot for such Bills. The intention is that the legislation will ensure (among…
The second in a series of ‘posts’ considering the options for the reform of social care funding, subtitled ‘avoiding the obvious’. The Government has announced that it will ‘publish a…
Cerebra and a number of other leading charities are undertaking a survey concerning the realities of living with more than one neurodevelopmental conditions. To complete this please click here.
Why is Germany’s military expenditure considerably less than the UKs’, despite Germany being significantly wealthier, more populous and closer to Russia?[1] Why does Essex spend 40% more (per person) on…
52% of Carers are Refused Flexible Working – the Law Needs to Change
A ‘What’s New’ post contributed by David Laurence of the Disability Law Service. Disabled people are entitled to have reasonable adjustments made in their workplace conditions in order to ensure…
A pre-publication draft of a fully updated (2018) guide to the rights of carers to social care support in England. Please let me know if you find typos, errors or…
In England and Wales social services provide significant amounts of healthcare to disabled and ill young people which should be funded by the NHS. Although unlawful it has been condoned…
The latest report of the Public Accounts Committee on NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) in England[1] is to be welcomed – introducing, as it does, a note of reality to the…
The School of Law at Leeds University and Cerebra via their LEaP Project are undertaking research on the adequacy of direct payments for disabled children. This has included Freedom of…
The first in a series of ‘posts’ considering the options for the reform of social care funding. The English Government has announced that it will publish a Green Paper on…
In N v. Romania[1] the European Court of Human Rights has given a more formal ‘nod’ in the direction of the right to independent living enshrined in Article 19 of…
NHS England has launched a survey about the experiences of children, young people and adults with a learning disability, autism or both who have made complaints. This could result in…