Speaker: Safda Mahmood
Intermediate/Update Level – Competence – B – Technical Legal Practice
The course will encompass a comprehensive look at the key case law and legislative developments across aspects of public children law and adoption. This will be an interactive seminar with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to analyse key themes and case law throughout the day. Some of the key areas to be covered will be:
- Emergency Orders
- Contact and Assessments
- Public Funding and matters relating to Threshold
- Secure Accommodation and Deprivation of Liberty Orders – Key Developments
- Vaccinations, Covid and Parental Responsibility
- Fostering and Processes
- Placement Orders and Special Guardianship
- Public Law Working Party Recommendations and Best Practice Guidance
- Interim Care and Removal - Key Developments
- Assessments and Instructing Experts
- Revoking and leave to oppose Adoption Orders
- Case Law Update
You will learn:
- An understanding of the key issues surrounding public children law and adoption matters for practitioners
- An update on key legislative and case law developments
- An understanding of developments in public children law and adoption so as to apply these to your practice, whether in private practice or local authority
Speakers Details
Safda Mahmood is a Senior Solicitor and Advocate in a Local Authority, as well as a nationally recognised Professional Development provider. Safda has practiced and lectured in Family Law for over 27 years and is on the Law Society Children Law Accredited Panel, specialising in Children and Adoption Law. As an author, he has written for various publications, such as Jordans’ Family Law Journal, The Legal Executives Journal, Solicitors Journal and the Law Society and Local Government Bulletin. Safda has also co-updated the title ‘Child Care and Protection: Law and Practice: Fifth Edition and is the Editor of the updated 6th edition of 2019 as well as the Children Law Handbook, 2021, by the Law Society.
