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 | 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

Garden Court Chambers | Saturday 27 February 2021

Social Welfare Update: Capacity and best interests in relation to Covid-19 Vaccination

E (Vaccine) [2021] EWCOP 7, Mr Justice Hayden, 20th January 2021

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 26 February 2021

Social Welfare Update: Repeat homelessness applications and local connection

R (Minott) v Cambridge City Council (2021) EWHC 211 (Admin)

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 26 February 2021

Social Welfare Update: Would receipt of a Covid-19 vaccine be in a mentally incapacitated person’s best interests when other treatments are proposed by a family member?

SD v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea [2021] EWCOP 14

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 26 February 2021

Social Welfare Update: Council misapplied its Allocation Scheme by treating a “preference” given to families with children as an automatic decision in their favour

R (Nur) v Birmingham City Council [2020] EWHC 3526 (Admin)

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 26 February 2021

Social Welfare Update: Denial of bereavement support payment to family of a deceased woman who had been unable to work and pay NI contributions due to severe disability breached ECHR

Blog by Desmond Rutledge of the Garden Court Chambers Welfare Benefits Law Team. O'Donnell v Department For Communities [2020] NICA 36.

Garden Court Chambers | Friday 26 February 2021

Social Welfare Update: Suspension of DLA after 28 days in hospital did not violate Article 14 ECHR, in case of an adult patient with severe learning disabilities

Blog by Desmond Rutledge of the Garden Court Chambers Welfare Benefits Law Team. MOC (by MG) v SSWP (DLA) [2020] UKUT 134 (AAC)

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