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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 | Wednesday 1 January 2014

2013 12 Education

No new developments this month.

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 1 January 2014

2013 12 Welfare Benefits

News New regulations on EEA nationals and jobseekers New regulations have been issued which provide for the end of transitional controls on Romanian and Bulgarian workers and which tighten the right to reside provisions for unemployed EEA migrants. The Immigration (European Economic Area) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2013 (SI.No.3032/2013) (Click here) which amend the Immigration […]

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 1 January 2014

2013 12 Adult Care

R (Members of the Committee of Care North East Northumberland) v Northumberland County Council (27 November 2013) (extempore, no neutral citation as yet)(Aikens and Sullivan LJJ, Sir Stanley Burnton): the Council had lawfully had regard to the actual costs of care locally, when determining the levels of its payments to care home owners, not by […]

Garden Court Chambers | Sunday 1 December 2013

2013 11 Children

FZ (DRC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] UKSC 74 (Lady Hale, Lords, Kerr, Reed, Toulson, Hodge): This case is an appeal against the dismissal of his judicial review application of the Secretary of State's decision that he did not qualify for asylum or humanitarian protection. He and his wife had a […]

Garden Court Chambers | Sunday 1 December 2013

2013 11 Education

No new developments this month.

Garden Court Chambers | Sunday 1 December 2013

2013 11 Housing

Wandsworth LBC v NJ [2013] EWCA Civ 1373 (Lewison, Kitchin and Gloster LJJ): whether accommodation in a women’s refuge can constitute accommodation of a person’s own choice. NJ became homeless having fled from serious domestic violence in Leicester. She sought assistance from a charity and was placed in a women’s refuge in Lambeth. After six […]

Garden Court Chambers | Sunday 1 December 2013

2013 11 Welfare Benefits

news DWP publishes response to SSAC recommendations on new ‘size criteria’ regulations On 15 November 2013, the DWP published its response to recommendations by the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) on the benefit gateway for disabled children to be allowed an additional bedroom under the housing benefit and universal credit ‘size criteria’ regulations. Whilst the […]

Garden Court Chambers | Sunday 1 December 2013

2013 11 Adult Care

R (Bhatti) v Bury MBC[2013] EWHC 3093 Admin (HHJ Pelling QC): in a case where proceedings were settled on the basis that the local authority would complete a fresh community care and financial assessment, unless the circumstances were exceptional, the appropriate course was for a claimant aggrieved by the fresh assessments to issue a fresh […]