For those professionals working in children’s services, this remains an exciting, but challenging time. Children’s services remain high on the political agenda and the spotlight continues to bring a plethora of reports, consultations, new law and national strategies.
Bevan Brittan’s dynamic and dedicated Children’s Law team understand the opportunities and challenges faced by those providing universal, targeted, and specialist services to children, across the public, private and third sectors.
Our cohesive and specialist team can assist in navigating around the changes impacting upon children’s services to provide the best support to one of the most vulnerable groups in society i.e. children.
Bevan Brittan’s team includes dually qualified lawyers coming from clinical, local authority and education backgrounds so our team brings together a breadth and depth of experienced lawyers and advocates.
Bevan Brittan is a nationally based firm with offices in London, Bristol and Birmingham. We can undertake court and advisory work in emergencies, and have a 24 hour contact facility.
We can provide high calibre strategic advice around the reconfiguration of your services, including integrated working and implementing the five outcomes for children under the NSF and Every Child Matters. We can enhance your governance framework around children services, including information sharing, medicines management, adverse incidents and medical ethics. We provide specialist advice around CAMHS, learning disabilities and other specialist services to children, and can support your organisation with child protection protocols and with serious case reviews under the Safeguarding Children legislation. We can guide and support your staff around evidence giving for litigation, public and private law cases, inquests, case conferences and inquiries. We can train and update your staff and organisation through our strong education and training arm which provides legal updates and workshops on all the topics which impact on Children’s Services.