Speaker: Safda Mahmood
Intermediate/Update Level – Competence – B – Technical Legal Practice
How familiar are you with law surrounding adoption and placement?
When is it necessary to apply for a placement order and what is the position with the transfer of parental responsibility, and thereafter?
Do you understand how the adoption panel system works?
Are panels needed, and what is a matching panel?
The course will be covering the leading and developing case law and statutory provisions. It is a course which will be relevant for those of you acting for parents, extended family members, local authorities and children. The key areas to be covered will include the following:
- Placement Orders – How do they operate?
- Revocation of Placement Orders – What must I know?
- Adoption Processes and Procedure – What are the developing key regulations
- Adoption and Placement Orders – How do they fit together?
- Leave to Revoke Placement Orders - What is the test?
- Local Authority Processes and Procedures - Impact of COVID-19 and changes
- Panels and Processes
- Leave to Oppose Making of Adopton Orders – Latest Cases
Speakers Details
Safda Mahmood is a Senior Solicitor and Advocate in a Local Authority, as well as a nationally recognised Professional Development provider. Safda has practiced and lectured in Family Law for over 27 years and is on the Law Society Children Law Accredited Panel, specialising in Children and Adoption Law. As an author, he has written for various publications, such as Jordans’ Family Law Journal, The Legal Executives Journal, Solicitors Journal and the Law Society and Local Government Bulletin. Safda has also co-updated the title ‘Child Care and Protection: Law and Practice: Fifth Edition and is the Editor of the updated 6th edition of 2019 as well as the Children Law Handbook, 2021, by the Law Society.
