Social Welfare Updates

Our social welfare pages provide bite-sized updates on recent case-law and policy, written by Garden Court barristers specialising in adult social care, children’s services, Court of Protection (health and welfare), housing and homelessness, and welfare benefits.

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Garden Court Chambers | Sunday 2 May 2021

Social Welfare Update: Norfolk Council’s policy on charging for services unlawfully discriminated against severely disabled service-users and breached their Human Rights

Blog post by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. R (SH acting through her mother and litigation friend MH) v Norfolk CC [2020] EWHC 3436 (Admin): Griffiths J

Tim Baldwin

Garden Court Chambers | Saturday 1 May 2021

Social Welfare Update: Circumstances in which court will grant mandatory order requiring local authority to provide ‘suitable’ accommodation

Blog post by Connor Johnston of the Garden Court Housing Team. R (Imam) v The London Borough of Croydon [2021] EWHC 739 (Admin), 26 March 2021

Connor Johnston

Garden Court Chambers | Saturday 1 May 2021

Social Welfare Update: Making arrangements for paid for sexual services for a person who lacked capacity to make those arrangements was not an offence under s 39 Sexual Offences Act 2003

Blog post by Bethan Harris of the Garden Court Chambers Court of Protection Team. A Local Authority -and- C (by his litigation friend, AB), A Clinical Commissioning Group and Secretary of State for Justice [2021] EWCOP 25, Hayden J, 26 April 2021

Bethan Harris

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 30 April 2021

Social Welfare Update: Local authority powers to accommodate rough sleepers during the pandemic

The Claimant, TN, was a homeless failed asylum-seeker. He sought accommodation from the Defendant, Brighton and Hove City Council. This request was made in the context of the ‘Everyone In’ scheme: a central government initiative whereby local authorities had been tasked with bringing rough sleepers in off the streets during the Covid-19 pandemic to minimise […]

Connor Johnston

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 30 April 2021

Social Welfare Update: Person subject to immigration control cannot claim Carer’s Allowance as a family member of a British national who has not exercised freedom of movement rights

Blog post by Desmond Rutledge of the Garden Court Chambers Welfare Benefits Team. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v AS (CA) [2021] UKUT 24 (AAC)

Desmond Rutledge

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 30 April 2021

Social Welfare Update: High Court holds a patient was “ordinarily resident”, for the purposes of funding s 117 aftercare, in second local authority’s area immediately before second period of detention

Blog post by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. R (on the application of Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2021] EWHC 682 (Admin): Linden J

Tim Baldwin

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 30 April 2021

Social Welfare Update: Secretary of State was correct as to the responsibility for funding accommodation at Transitional Rehabilitation Unit when determining ordinary residence under National Assistance Act 1948

Blog post by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. R (on the application of Lancashire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, v JM and St Helens Council [2021] EWHC 268 (admin); HHJ Eyre QC

Tim Baldwin

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 30 April 2021

Social Welfare Update: Parental responsibility and access to puberty blockers for transgender children

Blog post by Ollie Persey of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. AB v CD & Ors [2021] EWHC 741 (Fam)

Ollie Persey

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