Course focus

Income Generation - Charging Into Trading

Date:
21 March 2012
Venue:
Bevan Brittan LLP, London
CPD:
4.5

Training programmes

Local Authority Support for People from Abroad Conference

LGG is pleased to present the Local Authority Support for People from Abroad Conference in association with 2 - 3 Grays Inn Square Chambers. Chaired by Kelvin Rutledge, the day is to be held at Hallam Conference Centre, London and is an essential legal update for Heads of Legal and all Lawyers involved in Asylum and Immigration Law.  

The course is designed for Social Services Solicitors in Local Authorities and their colleagues in the Housing Department.

It will set the scene on the current position in both legislation and recent changes in case law. It is a practical session which will provide guidance on how to understand the legal framework, how to apply it and how to ensure the best level of service is provided to unaccompanied asylum seeking children.

Chair’s Introduction: Immigration Update and Children’s Services.
Kelvin Rutledge, Barrister

Overview on Immigration Law and Central Government Support 

  • Immigration control in the UK
  • Demarcation between central and local government support
  • Hard cases support
  • The importance of EC law
  • Human rights

Peggy Etiebet, Barrister

Which Authority?

  • s20 Children Act 1989
  • Liverpool CC v Hillingdon LBC

Stacey Rowse, Solicitor

Age Assessments

a) Whose job is it to assess?

  • The Croydon and Lambeth appeals to the CA and the HoL
  • Construction of “child in need”
  • Precedent fact
  • Social Worker Assessments and Articles 6 and 8

b) The assessment process

  • The Croydon and Kent cases
  • The treatment of paediatric and other alleged expert evidence

Bryan McGuire, Barrister and Kathy Robinson, Solicitor

Performing the Service 

  • The local authority's powers and duties
  • 16/17 year olds: whose duty?
  • Putting it into practice
  • Children leaving care: continuing duties.

Catherine Rowlands, Barrister

Chair’s Introduction: Adult Care.
Kelvin Rutledge, Barrister

Eligibility, HRA and EU Free-Movement Rights 

  • Schedule 3 NIAA 2002  - what support is prohibited? Who is ineligible?
  • Paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 – when support may/ must be provided despite ineligibility
  • Human Rights, focus on article 3 and article 8 and assessments
  • Return to country of origin
  • Cases involving children
  • EEA nationals -  when is a community law right being exercised?

Sian Davies, Barrister

Residential & Domiciliary Care; Slough and its aftermath

  • Applying the test
  • Mental health cases
  • Care in the service-user's own home
  • Withdrawing the service
  • Residual obligations of central government
  • The relevance of resources

Kelvin Rutledge, Barrister

Practical workshops 

  1. NASS or LA?
  2. Sched 3, HRA assessment S.21 or 29?

(Panel members)

Question Sessions with the expert panel of speakers

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