Community Care

Community Care is a website well worth checking out by public law specialists. Although aimed at social work professionals it has good coverage of legal topics. In Today's Papers has a round up of all news stories related to social care issues. There are a number of different newsfeeds grouped under headings like child abuse, children's services, fostering & adoption as well as topics of more general community care interest such as housing, with a good explanation of how to subscribe to them (simple if you have Internet Explorer 7 - just click on the orange button at the top right hand of the page and subscribe - the feed is then kept in a directory next to your favourites and the feeds are updated whenever you are online - this means you don't have to go the website every time you want to know what is new and you can glance over the headlines & short summaries and read the full content of anything that interests you - if you don't have IE 7 you need a newsreader such as Google Reader ). There are a number of round up articles on the main website such as this Special Report on the Children Act 2004 & this one on Essential Information on Child Protection one of a series of resource summaries. There is a regular legal update provided by Doughty Street, Hempsons & White & Sherwin, though those published on the website lag slightly behind real time. These are just some of the tip of the iceberg of this website - other features include a series of blogs, an A-Z of benefits and you can sign up for email newsletters. All round a top site!