Community Care
We specialise in challenging decisions by social and children’s services affecting clients’ accommodation needs, including assessment of needs, age assessments, looked-after children, children leaving care, migrant welfare and asylum support, no recourse to public funds cases, threats to separate children from their parents and other matters arising from the Children Act 1989 and the Care Act 2014.
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News & Cases
Indemnity costs ordered against Local authority who conceded breaches of Mental Health Act, Care Act Statutory Guidance, Code of Practice and Articles 3 and 8 ECHR
Olivia Beach represented a very vulnerable individual in a long-running judicial review concerning the provision of aftercare under Section 117 Mental Health Act.
Olivia Beach
NP v Lewisham London Borough Council
Application for judicial review challenging the defendant’s refusal to extend accommodation to the claimant, who was subject to “no recourse to public funds” in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Geeta Koska