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 | Monday 3 May 2021

Social Welfare Update: Security of tenure for person accommodated by local authority under Everyone In

Blog post by Connor Johnston of the Garden Court Housing Team. R (Abudah Ali Ibrahim) v Haringey LBC and Capital Home Services Ltd [2021] EWHC 731 (QB), 30 March 2021

Connor Johnston

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: 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 | 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 | Friday 30 April 2021

Social Welfare Update: High Court confirms urgency – and mandatory obligations – for Local Authorities to progress EUSS applications on behalf of children and care leavers

Blog post by Gráinne Mellon of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. Re W and Re Z (EU Settled Status for Looked After Children) [2021] EWHC 783 (Fam), 31 March 2021

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: 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: 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

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