National Independent Safeguarding Board – Advice Note to Regional Safeguarding Boards

Posted by The Board. Thu 23 May 2019

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A Practitioner’s Guide: Basic Legal Principles

Posted by The Board. Thu 6 Dec 2018

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Financial Constraints and the Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014

Posted by Giles Pengelly. Wed 14 Feb 2018

The Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014 (“the Welsh Act”) places a “general” duty on certain bodies to promote the “well-being” of various social groups. This article considers a recent ‘English’ case, applicable – by analogy – to the Welsh Act that has certain implications about the relevance of financial constraints to decisions under – Read more..

The legal background to Safeguarding

Posted by Ruth Henke. Tue 30 Jan 2018

It is said that it takes a generation to build up a body of court made law which interprets and applies a new statutory scheme. Below you will find the links to the reported cases which currently cite the Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014 The List The cases are listed, first, by – Read more..