Social Work and the Law in Scotland

DEBORAH BAILLIE is a lawyer and independent consultant and trainer in health and social work law. - KATE CAMERON is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at the University of Strathclyde. - LESLEY-ANN CULL is Lecturer in Law in the School of Health and Social Welfare at the Open University. She is co-editor of The Law and Social Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001) with Jeremy Roche. - JEREMY ROCHE is Senior Lecturer in Law in the School of Health and Social Welfare at the Open University. He is co-editor with Lesley-Ann Cull of The Law and Social Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001) and of Youth in Society and Changing Experiences of Youth (both Sage 1997). - JANICE WEST is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University.

The Law and Social work - Critical Perspectives on Welfare: The Example of Child Care Services; K.Tisdall - Legal Values and Social Work Values; J.Roche - Discrimination and social work; C.Robinson - The impact of devolution and the Human Rights Act 1998 on social work practice; V.Strachan - Accountability; K.Cameron - Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; K.Marshall - Overviews of key areas of law and practice - Mental health and social work; I.Ferguson - Confidentiality, human rights and data protection; D.Baillie - The social work role in the Children's Hearings System; J.McGhee - Social Work practice in the Criminal justice system; R.MacKay - Education; M.Hawthorn & M.McLarty - Disability and the Law; I.Nisbet - Care in the Community; A.Petch - Children being looked after; A.Kendrick - Elder abuse, neglect and the law; A.Ferry - Housing; M.Dailly - Welfare rights; A.MacKenzie - Domestic Violence; L-A.Cull - Ensuring Social work practice complies with the ECHR; K.Cameron - The law and practice relating to freeing for adoption and adoption; J.West - Service User and practice perspectives - A carer's perspective on being a long-term carer; Carer of disabled child - The role of the Mental Health Officer; K. MacKay - The role of the Reporter to the Children's Panel; J.Robson - Independent Advocacy; a practice perspective; A.Forbes - The role of the safeguarder; E.Foules - The work of the Scottish Child Law Centre; K.MacFarlane - The Sheriffs and the Sheriff Court - the judicial function; B.Kearney - I didn't come here for fun; extract - A sense of purpose: Care leaver's views and experiences of growing up; Save the Children 2001 extract - Learning with care: The Education of Children looked after away from home by local authorities; Scottish Executive 2001 extract - The work of ENABLE, ENABLE legal services and ENABLE Trustee Services; E. Craigmyle - On working with offenders in the Community; - The role of the Curator ad Litem and Reporting Officer in adoption proceedings; J.West - Code of practice for social service workers; SSSC