Before moving into social work education, Robert Johns worked for a number of years in a range of social work roles, predominantly in the public sector. His specialisms were youth justice and court-work, representing the interests of children involved in care proceedings. Academically, his major abiding interest has been social work law but he has also taught social policy and social work values and ethics, hence his latest book, Ethics and Law for Social Workers. Currently, he teaches  at the University of East London, where has been Head of Social Work and programme leader for the qualifying MA offered in conjunction with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. He is the author of Using the Law in Social Work, now in its sixth edition, Social Work, Social Policy and Older People and, most recently,  Capacity and Autonomy.

A
Abduction, child
Abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct
Acceptable Behaviour Contracts
Accommodation of children
Accountability, employer
Accountability, local authority
Accountability, social worker
Acid test
Action plan orders
Acts of Parliament
Admission, compulsory hospital
Adoption
Adoption and Children Act 2002
Adult at Risk
Adult safeguarding
Adult safeguarding enquiry
Advance decisions
Advocates and advocacy
After-care services
Age of criminal responsibility
Anti-discrimination legislation
Anti-social Behaviour Orders
Appeals
Appropriate adult
Approved Mental Capacity Professional
Approved Mental Health Professionals
Arrest, youth
Assessment, adult needs
Assessment, child
Asylum seekers
Attendance Centre Orders
B
Baby P (aka Baby Peter, Peter Connolly)
Bail
BAILII
Barristers
Best Interests
Best Interests Assessor
Binding over
Bournewood case
British Association of Social Workers (BASW)
Burden of proof
Butler Sloss Inquiry
C
Cafcass
Capacity
Care Act 2014
Care and support plans
Care and Support statutory guidance
Care homes, care homes with nursing
Care orders
Care plans
Care proceedings
Care Quality Commission
Carers
Case law
Causative nexus
Cheshire West and Chester
Child abduction
Child Arrangement Orders
Child Assessment Orders
Child in need
Child Protection
Child Protection Conference
Child Protection Plan
Child Safeguarding Boards
Child Safeguarding system
Child Safety Orders
Child, definition of
Children Act 1989
Children Act 2004
Children and Families Act 2014
Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service
Children and Social Work Act 2017
Children and young people's plans
Children's Commissioner
Children's guardians
Choice rights, choice of accommodation
Circulars
Citation of legislation and legal cases
Civil law
Clerks, court
Cleveland Inquiry
Climbié case
Closure of care homes
Codes of Practice and Statutory Guidance
College of Social Work
Commission for Local Administration
Commission for Social Care Inspection
Commissioning services
Common law and common law doctrine of necessity
Community treatment orders
Compensation orders
Competencies, professional
Complaints procedures
Compulsory admission and detention (mental health)
Compulsory protection of adults
Compulsory treatment
Confidentiality and privacy
Consent
Contact orders, care order related
Contact orders, private family law related
Convention on the Rights of the Child, UN
County Court
Court of Protection
Courts and court system
Crime, youth
Criminal Behaviour Orders
Criminal injury compensation
Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008
Criminal law
Criminal Records Bureau
Crown Court
Crown Prosecution Service
Cultural considerations
Custody
D
Data protection
Deferred payment
Delay, no delay principle
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Detention and Training Orders
Direct payments
Director of Public Prosecutions
Disclosure and barring
Disempowerment
Domestic abuse
Duty of care, local authority
Duty of care, social worker
Duty solicitor
E
Education supervision orders
Education, children and young people
Education, Health and Care plans
Education, looked after children
Eligibility criteria
Emergency Protection Order
Employer accountability and duty of care
Empowerment
Enduring Power of Attorney
Equality and Human Rights Commission
European Convention on Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
Evidence in court
Examination-in-chief
Exclusion, school
Expert witness
F
Fair Access to Care Services
Family Assistance Orders
Family court
Family division, High Court
Family Justice Council
Family law
Family proceedings court
Finance and payments for services
Fitness to practise
Former relevant children
Foster care
Freedom of information
G
General Social Care Council
Gillick competence
Green Paper
Guardians (children's guardians)
Guardianship
H
Harm, significant
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Hearsay
High Court
Homelessness
Human Rights Act 1998
I
Independent Care Act Advocates
Independent Mental Capacity Advocate
Independent Mental Health Advocates
Independent Reviewing Officer
Independent Safeguarding Authority
Indictable offences
Inherent jurisdiction
Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Injustice, public body
Inquiries
Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programmes
Investigations, child safeguarding
J, K
Judges
Judicial review
Justices of the Peace
L
Laming Inquiry
Lasting Power of Attorney
Law Commission
Lawtel
Leaving care
Legal aid
Legal databases
Legal Ombudsman
Legal planning and pre-proceedings
Lexis-Nexis or Lexis Library
Liberty Protection Safeguards
Litigation friend
Living wills
Local authorities, accountability
Local authorities, legal status
Local Child Safeguarding Boards
Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman
Looked-after children
M
Magistrates
Maladministration, public body
Mental Capacity Act 2005
Mental disorder
Mental Health Act Commission
Mental Health Acts 1983, 2007
Munro Report
N
National Occupational Standards
Nearest relative
Neglect, adult
Neglect, child
Negligence
NHS Continuing Healthcare
No delay principle
No order principle
Non-molestation order
NSPCC
O
Occupation order
Offences, first time
Official Solicitor
Ofsted
Ombudsman
Ordinary residence
P
Parent, definition of
Parental responsibility
Parenting orders
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Pathway plans
Penalties, youth offending
Personal Adviser
Personal budgets
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
Police Protection Order
Power of Attorney
Powers, mandatory and permissive
Practice directions
Pre-sentence reports
Prevent, reduce and delay duty
Prevention, crime
Privacy and confidentiality
Privacy and family life, right to
Private family law
Private fostering
Private law orders
Procedures, complaint
Professional Capabilities Framework
Professionalism
Prohibited steps order
Proof, burden of
Proof, standard of
Proportionality
Protection of property
Protection of title
Public bodies
Public Guardian
Public law orders
Public Law Outline
Q
Quality assurance, service standards
R
Referral orders
Refugees and people seeking asylum
Registration, children¿s care provider
Registration, professional social worker
Registration, social care homes
Regulations and Rules
Relinquished babies
Remands to care or custody
Reparation orders
Residence orders
Restraining Orders
Right to fair trial
Right to liberty
Right to life
Right to religion
Rights of redress
Rights, child
Rights, human
S
Safeguarding Adults Board
Safeguarding Adults Reviews
Safeguarding Children Partnerships (Safeguarding Partners)
Safeguarding, adult
Safeguarding, child
Secure accommodation
Seebohm Report 1968
Serious Case Reviews
Serious case reviews, adult
Services for children and families
Sexual abuse
Sexual harm prevention orders
Sexual Offences Prevention Orders
Significant harm
Social work education
Social Work England
Social worker accountability and registration
Solicitors
Special educational needs
Special guardianship
Specific issue orders
Statute law
Statutory guidance
Statutory instruments
Substitute care
Supervision order
Supreme Court
T
Tariffs, youth offending
Threshold criteria (care proceedings)
Transition to adulthood
Treatment, community orders
Treatment, compulsory
Tribunals
U
Ultra vires
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Unaccompanied and accompanied child asylum-seekers
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Unsound mind
V
Victims
Victoria Climbié case
Video links in court evidence
Vulnerable adults
Vulnerable witnesses
W
Wardship
Welfare checklist
Well-being
Westlaw
Whistle-blowing
White Paper
Wishes and feelings of children
Wishes and feelings, adult
Withdrawal of services
Witnesses
Working Together to Safeguard Children
X, Y, Z
Young person, definition of
Youth Cautions
Youth Courts
Youth detention accommodation
Youth justice
Youth Justice Board
Youth Offender Panels
Youth Offending Teams
Youth Rehabilitation Orders

Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this dip in and out of guide introduces students to over 300 key laws, legal terms, and legal processes in a concise and no-nonsense way. I t covers all areas of social work practice, ensuring students have the knowledge they need to apply the law with confidence.