Celtic Knot represents social workers in proceedings before employers,  the General Social Care Council, the Tribunal Service (Care Standards) and the Courts. Below, we have placed links to useful legal resources for social workers and representatives in these situations. "My experience of being represented was an extremely positive one...  it was a huge relief to find a Solicitor with such a degree of expertise in dealing with GSCC Hearings and also an understanding of my profession. The level of communication was outstanding, as anyone who has been subject to a similiar situation will understand, it is a time when one encounters extreme anxiety and seeks someone who can provide the relevant knowledge or in my case reassurance. I cannot praise Celtic Knot Social Workers and Solicitors... enough for their level of commitment to my case. I am certain had I not been represented by Celtic Knot I would not have achieved the same outcome at my final Conduct Hearing..." (recent feedback received) General Social Care Council General Social Care Council (Conduct) Rules 2008 [previous version here] General Social Care Council (Registration) Rules 2008 [previous version here] Indicative Sanctions Guidance Decisions from recently concluded hearings Decisions from older concluded hearings Search all GSCC conduct decisions to June 2011: Tribunal Service (Care Standards) Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) Rules 2008 Decisions of the Care Standards Tribunal: 1. Recent decisions as they are published 2. Older decisions published on BAILII 3. Decisions page of the Tribunal Service website 4. Care Standards Tribunal digests of cases 5. BJSW article analysing Care Standards decisions British Journal of Social Work 2010 40(1):311-327 Employers' Disciplinaries - caselaw on the right to legal representation G, R (on the application of) v X School & Anor [2009] EWHC 504 (Admin) (18 March 2009) and on appeal G, R (on the application of) v X School & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 1 (20 January 2010) (Supreme Court ruling awaited, heard 11 and 12 April 2011) Kulkarni v Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 789 (23 July 2009) Other consequences - caselaw on POVA/POCA, CRB, ISA and Human Rights Wright & Ors,R (On the application of) v Secretary of State for Health & Anor [2009] UKHL 3 (21 January 2009) (POVA/POCA) L, R (on the application of) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2009] UKSC 3 (29 October 2009) (Enhanced CRB checks) Royal College of Nursing & Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor [2010] EWHC 2761 (Admin) (10 November 2010) (ISA vetting and barring scheme)

Authorised & regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority Our social workers are registered with the General Social Care Council

Allan Norman - Principal Solicitor, Social Worker, RSP 443754 Faith Ryan - Associate Solicitor-Advocate Yasmeen Qazi - Social Worker, Non-practising Solicitor

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