Celtic Knot Archive

Of Historical Interest

This is the part of the website where we will store, or make links to, archived pages and documents that remain in the public domain. You can find reports, articles, presentations, news stories and published cases. Some of these links are to documents we are hosting with permission of, or on behalf of, other people.

Reports, Articles, Presentations etc (most recent first)

Article in Professional Social Work  'Social Work after Bell v Tavistock' - February 2021 edition

Article in Professional Social Work  'Legal Cases that Shaped Social Work' - July/August 2020 50th Anniversary edition

Article in Professional Social Work 'Back to 1984' October 2016
- and hyperlinked html version here

Article in Professional Social Work 'What's going on with Section 20?' December 2015/January 2016 - and hyperlinked html version here

Celtic Knot in Community Care 'Concern for a child’s welfare can never justify illegal practice' November 2015 - and case comment here

Celtic Knot's World Social Work Day presentation 'Human Dignity: Surviving the Endtimes of Human Rights' March 2015 - and on BASW website

Celtic Knot's Human Rights Day presentation 'Social Work and Human Rights' for JUCSWEC/BASW conference December 2013 - and on BASW website

Celtic Knot's submission on the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill July 2013 - and on the website of the Scottish Parliament

Celtic Knot's World Social Work Day 2013 presentation 'Promoting Meaningful Lives', for Jewish Care, March 2013

JUCSWEC/APSW Joint Statement on Frontline (hosted with kind permission of JUCSWEC/APSW), February 2013


Lucy Series' article on DoLS v Guardianship, (thanks to Lucy Series, The Small Places), updated December 2012

Celtic Knot's seminar on KM v Cambridgeshire for Doughty Street Chambers, July 2012

Celtic Knot's submission to the Commission on a Bill of Rights, September 2011

'Sex, Power and Regulation' article by Jef Smith (hosted with kind permission of Professional Social Work/BASW), March 2008

Information pages on Hidden Harm (children of drug using parents), from Andy Augustus for Sandwell LSCB conference, February 2007

Celtic Knot submission to Sandwell LSCB conference on information sharing, February 2007

Significant cases involving Celtic Knot


AB & Anor, R (on the application of) v The London Borough of Haringey [2013] EWHC 416 (Admin) (13 March 2013)

BS v General Social Care Council [2011] UKUT 265 (AAC) (04 July 2011)

Bains v General Social Care Council [2010] UKFTT 641 (HESC) (22 December 2010)

Bath & North East Somerset Council v A Mother & Ors [2008] EWHC B10 (Fam) (22 December 2008)

Celtic Knot In The News (recent stories)

SNP's attempt to legalise state snooping on families is 'doomed to disaster', Sunday Express, 6th August 2017

Celtic Knot cited in Guardian 'Adoption and child protection: are councils misusing a key part of the law?'
November 2015 - Article by Louise Tickle

Why social workers should be worried about surveillance laws, Guardian, 10th February 2015

Critics pan 'State Guardian' for every Scots child proposal, Express, 31st August 2013

Haringey council tried to crush our family, Telegraph, 7th April 2013

Working remotely in social care is not impossible, Guardian, 27th January 2012

Can't find what you are looking for?

If you are looking for previous versions of pages from other sites, or have been sent here because of missing links, or are generally looking for archive material from the internet, you may find what you are looking for at The Wayback Machine. Specifically, if a hyperlink no longer works, right-click the link and select 'Properties' to find out the url, then type or paste the url into  The Wayback Machine. You will be provided with details of archived versions of the page.

The Wayback Machine is a publicly available archive utility. Celtic Knot is making you aware of the utility, but has no links to it whatsoever and offers no warranties in relation to it.

Also, the UK Government has an archive of UK Government documents which can be searched by url. Instructions for the National Archive are here.

Allan Norman is a Social Worker registered with Social Work England  Celtic Knot aims to be a sustainable virtual business