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Community care: staying up-to-date

18 July 2019
Categories: Legal News , Community care , Legal aid focus
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The seventh edition of Community Care and the Law has been published by Legal Action Group. 

Its author, Luke Clements, is the Cerebra Professor of Law at Leeds University, and a solicitor with Scott-Moncrieff & Associates. The book provides comprehensive coverage of local authority duties and powers, including assessments, ordinary residence, care and support services, housing, safeguarding and asylum seeker rights. It also includes a remedies chapter featuring a step-by-step guide to complaints and judicial review procedures, and has been fully updated to cover new NHS guidance and General Data Protection Regulation considerations.

The print and e-book editions can both be purchased here

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