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Delivery
No statement from the addressee found
Recommendation 20: Independent professional advice for Social Work Departments
From The Report of the Inquiry into the Removal of Children from Orkney in February 1991, published 27 October 1992.
Recommendation
Social Work Departments should have recourse to independent professional advice in all appropriate cases in addition to the carrying out of any necessary medical examinations. A list of persons suitably skilled and experienced in providing such advice should be available to all Social Work Departments. It may also be appropriate to have recourse to advice from a child psychiatry team (15.44-46).
Jurisdiction: UK-wide
Page: 354
Reference: Summary of Recommendations, no. 20
Government response
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Delivery
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Source
Inquiry
Orkney Inquiry
Report
The Report of the Inquiry into the Removal of Children from Orkney in February 1991
27 Oct 1992
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Recommendation made
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