Adults & Children's Social Care Legal Services

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is inviting tenders for the provision of Legal Services for Adults and Children’s Social Care. The description below provides a summary of the services required with the full requirements for the service detailed in the specification.

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is looking for a legal advice and guidance service to support our Children’s and adult social care services. The legal service will need to include these key elements for children’s services: • Advice and guidance on legal cases within children’s services • Representations in court a required • Good working relationships with chambers to enable a responsive partnership style relationship • Weekly legal workshops for children’s care management staff to be held at the Town Hall • Representation for fostering and adoption case • Support staff with legal queries and nuances of law that take place • Advice on complaints in relation to children’s services • Advice and representation in relation to judicial review

The following key elements for adult social care services

• Advice and representation for adult social care • Advice and representation in relation to judicial review • Advice on complaints in relation to adult social care • Legal training for staff in relation to adult social care • Advice on complaints and responding to data information requests where appropriate.

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