Local authorities have a duty to accommodate increasing numbers of very troubled children and young people, but with chronically insufficient provision of suitable accommodation, either in approved secure accommodation or registered children’s homes, and regulatory restrictions on where they can place such children.
Hospitals are frequently in a position to discharge such children for whom they have provided care following a crisis but who no longer require clinical intervention and are then faced with having to continue to accommodate them because there is no alternative accommodation.
There is a tension between the duty of the local authority to provide accommodation and services and the lack of provision of mental health services, which often pits state agencies against each other. Specialist care providers who seek to fill the gap in the provision of approved and/or registered accommodation face potential criminal sanctions. What is the courts’ response to all this?
We will be joined by guest speaker Amrita Hurst from our corporate partners Bevan Brittan.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Amrita is a partner in the Health & Care Regulatory team and specialise in health and social care law and public and regulatory law more generally. She works with local authorities, health and care providers in the NHS, independent and third sector and central government departments.
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