Acting for Parents in Care Proceedings

The lawyers who act for the Local Authority and the Guardian ad Litem are likely to have years of specialist experience; the parents' Solicitor may be a far more general practitioner and feel unnecessarily disadvantaged. This course examines the entire process.

It will include:

• The Case Conference
• Emergency Protection Orders and other urgent remedies
• Part VI Family Law Act in Care Cases
• The Care application, the 'threshold criteria' and standards of proof
• Comprehensive assessment, Risk assessment and residential assessment
• Use of experts
• The final hearing; Care Order, Supervision Order or neither
• Contact with children in care
• Adoption and placement for adoption

Course Dates

12/07/2013 London	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
10/09/2013 Nottingham	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
20/09/2013 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
25/09/2013 Manchester	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information
08/10/2013 London	09:30 - 17:00 Venue Information

Graham Pegg 
LLB, Solicitor, Senior Partner and Head of the Family Law team, Pickerings, Tamworth. Graham has been a member of the Law Society’s Children’s Panel since its inception and is a specialist in Children Law.