Services

Specialists in
Personal Injury

The Social Services Department of local government can intervene in your family life if it suspects  that  your children are at risk of harm  or you need assistance caring for your children. Ultimately they have the power, in appropriate cases, to remove your children from your care and even place them for adoption or fostering.

When it comes to the protection and care of your children you need specialist legal advice, and it is important that you speak with our childcare consultant Miss Farah Gilani who  has experience of  this complex area of law and understands the  practice of  social services departments and  what they can and cannot do. Miss Gilani is a member of the Children Law panel of the Law Society.

So,  if you are involved with  child social services or involved with care, supervision or enforced adoption proceedings  under the Children Act 1989  contact us as soon as it is convenient for  you to do so.

Once the Local Authority have sent  you a  "Letter before Action",  you will probably be entitled to legal aid in these cases since the parents of  children automatically qualiify and the legal aid  is non-means and non-merits tested so almost everyone will receive legal aid.  Automatic legal aid is not available to grandparents, however, and grandparents applying for legal aid would have to meet a financial means test and a legal merits test.