What have we been up to?

Time is certainly flying by on the Inform desk, as we move into March 2008, we are delighted to see the service expanding week on week. Gary Vaux, Hertfordshire Council’s welfare rights officer, has updated the A-Z benefits section this week. In this update, you will now find the amounts payable for each benefit. This has come as a direct result of feedback from Inform users! We are listening to your views and want to tailor this service as best we can to meet your work needs. We are now back on track with loading case law summaries in partnership with our legal publisher Lexis Nexis. We’ve loaded 80 case summaries over the past couple of weeks taking the total up to 380. We aim to have the target 500 on the site very soon! At the beginning of the year we published a guide to the Public Law Outline. This can be found in the legislation section. It has been mentioned in a few training sessions, so I just thought it would be useful to bring to your attention that it is now available on the site. The guide includes: a proposed summary of changes; recommendations from the care proceedings review; the existing protocol – the key changes in relation to the PLO; the case management model template order; what the changes mean for local authorities; what the changes mean for CAFCASS and training arrangements. We have also loaded lots more content which include: Reference manuals - A guide to child and adolescent mental health services - Child protection in sport - Children and young people who go missing - Kinship care Guide to… - Lifestory work - Obesity in children and young people Research review - Young runaways