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A review of proposed developments in children’s social care and a look at what the future holds for children’s services in the public sector.

In December 2020, 15-year-old Child Q was strip-searched with no appropriate adult present.

An increase in assaults against teachers needs risk management and claims consideration now.

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) is a legal framework designed to protect people who lack mental capacity, but who need to be deprived of liberty so they can be given care and treatment in a hospital or care home.

The roots of the Everyone's Invited movement were in the independent school sector, created to expose and eradicate rape culture.

There is no denying that the last two years have been challenging and, in terms of the Scottish legal world, it has not always been easy to keep the wheels of justice turning in such unprecedented times.

Councils need to ensure that lawyers and advocates are aware of case law in failure to remove cases.

An exploration of whether there is any future for claims in negligence based on an assumption of responsibility following HXA and YXA decisions.

The Supreme Court has expressed concern at ‘the potential for unprincipled expansion’ in vicarious liability.