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Legal Update: Guide to supervision orders

James Bury, head of policy, research and development at CoramBAAF, outlines the implications of the Public Law Working Group’s new draft best practice recommendations on supervision orders.
Children with orders are allocated to social workers. Picture: Andreaobzerova/Adobe Stock
Children with orders are allocated to social workers. Picture: Andreaobzerova/Adobe Stock

The Public Law Working Group recently launched a consultation to improve supervision orders and the law, policy and practice relating to them when they are made at the conclusion of care proceedings.

A supervision order places a responsibility on the local authority to “advise, assist and befriend” the child and, by extension, the people with whom the child lives. Children who are the subject of such orders are allocated to social workers, and this will usually be managed under local authority arrangements for supporting children in need. Typically, these are granted for 12 months, but can be extended to last up to three years.

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