CHECK THESE SAMPLES OF The Powers and Duties of Local Authorities in Relation to the Family
The first is to the interest of the social work, specifically with the judicial and legal roles as well as the expected duties which need to be performed in relation to the judicial system.... It alters the expectations and procedures for professional social workers, statutory agents and employees working in conjunction with a local authority.... The alterations are specific to finding innovative ways and measures of working with other professionals as well as with the duties which are expected by workers....
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The major weaknesses of this study are concentrated on the legal powers and duties of local authorities in relation to the protection of children.... The study also identified a number of issues which usually arise in the operation of local authorities.... The conclusion from this study states that local authorities have an important role to play in child protection.... Sections 8, 9, and 10 of the Childcare Act 2006 provide local authorities with a set of powers in order to efficiently fulfill their duties, which have been defined under sections 6 and 7 of the Act....
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This essay "The Legal powers and duties of local authorities in relation to the Protection of Children" focuses on authorities that must pro-actively collaborate with community-based child rights advocates and social workers to afford the necessary protection.... Through international conventions and national policies, local authorities must enforce laws and enabling policies to ascertain that a child can enjoy his nationality, his identity, experience love from parents, enjoy support from the government, find leisure in life, and be protected by agencies and court to preserve his right to life....
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The author of the paper states that the Children Act 1989 pulled together and simplified all pre-existing legislation in relation to children and families.... It imposes new duties on local authorities (LAs) - for example, the identification and assessment of 'children in need';.... Professionals' work with children and their families is a complex issue and constantly evolving and contradictory constraints, in particular, the requirement to protect children from harm while avoiding unwarranted state intervention in family life....
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It is public knowledge that the Chinese authorities use Microsoft, Yahoo and other companies to filter the use of certain words such as "Democracy" and other words deemed offensive by the authorities from Chinese chat rooms and instant messaging software (Gunther)....
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In March 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - a cabinet level federal agency created under the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and tasked to coordinate and implement internal security took over immigration duties from the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).... ecretary of Homeland Security to enforce laws pertaining to security in conjunction with the issuance of visas of consulates and visas, powers that were vested before in the Secretary of State (National Immigration Forum, August 2003)....
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The duties of social workers can be divided into three groups, community care, children and family's social work and the Criminal Justice (Victims and Offenders).... unity care involves providing respite care, day services, accommodations, home help and carer and family support for persons with learning disabilities.... nder children and family's social work, social workers undertake a large variety of responsibilities.... While some of the duties and responsibilities assumed by social workers are voluntary....
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One, decentralization where the local government do not control local authorities regarding expenditure but allows the local leaders to exercise freedom, retain revenue and spend it according to the needs of the local communities.... Second, it can be evaluated in terms of fiscal devolution where the central government allows the local authorities to raise and retain funds via a number of existing charges and taxes systems including property taxes.... Also, to allow local authorities to have flexibility in borrowing as speculated within the law including borrowing from capital markets....
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