As part of a series of posts on our Doughty Street Community Care Passle, on the UK and the UNCRPD, today Angela Patrick considers the...
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In the second of a series of posts on the upcoming periodic review of the UK's compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons...
Today's Telegraph is reporting that Theresa May is "facing a double defeat over the Brexit Bill" (shorthand for the European Union...
This morning, the High Court has answered an important, previously undecided legal question: whether a local authority children's...
Doughty Street's Community Care and Health Team brings you expert analysis on the state of disability rights in the UK, as the UK...
There has still been surprisingly little litigation about the Care Act 2014. One issue that may well come up relates to ordinary...
The rights of children during adolescence have been recognised in a new General Comment by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child,...
Community Care reports that Northamptonshire Council has dropped plans to charge all self-funded adults £50 before conducting any...
The use by local authorities of the power under section 20 of the Children Act 1989 to accommodate and look after a child, rather than to...