Factsheets & Template Letters

Our expert Public Law & Human Rights solicitors have prepared a series of documents to help you navigate this tricky area of law and ensure that your and your family’s rights are respected by public bodies and the government.

Our Factsheets & Template Letters

Our expert Public Law & Human Rights solicitors have prepared a series of documents to help you navigate this tricky area of law and ensure that your and your family’s rights are respected by public bodies and the government.

Our Factsheets provide easy to follow explanations of the law and how you make can make sure that your rights are respected across a variety of situations.

You can use our Template Letters free of charge to make requests, complaints, challenges and appeals to public bodies yourself. Each letter is professionally drafted by our lawyers to the same high standards that we maintain for all of our clients.

The information provided, in no way constitutes legal advice and if you do require further information on any of the below, or you can’t find a document to help with your specific situation, please call our team for a free, confidential consultation to see how we could help.

Education

Factsheets

Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014

Factsheets

The following factsheets have been prepared to provide additional information to parents and young people:

Template Letters

The following template letters have been prepared to support parents and young people in writing to local authorities. All templates open as a Word document:

Template letters have not been prepared for circumstances where parents or young people wish to challenge a decision or exercise their rights of appeal, as they should seek specialist advice instead.

Health & Social Care

Factsheets

Template Letters

All letters open as Word documents:

The Care Act

Factsheets

The following factsheets have been prepared to provide additional information relating to the Care Act for adults and their carers. All factsheets open in PDF format:

Also see our Care Act infographic for more information.

Template Letters

The following template letters have been prepared to support adults and their carers in writing to local authorities. All template letters open as Word documents:

Human Rights

Mental Capacity

Factsheets

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

Factsheets

Template Letters

We have prepared template letters to be used by people who are concerned that a friend or family member is being deprived of their liberty in a hospital or care home without authorisation. All letters open as a Word document.

  • The first letter is to be sent to the manager of the hospital or care home requesting that a DoLS authorisation be put in place.
  • The second letter is to be sent to the local authority in the event that no satisfactory response is received to the above letter.
  • The third letter is to be sent to the relevant social worker where an individual is deprived of his or her liberty in a placement that is not a registered care home or hospital (for example a 'supported living' placement).

Serious Medical Treatment

Template Letters

The below template letters have been prepared should you object to Do-Not Resucitate (DNR) decision or the withdrawal of treatment for an adult or a child.

  • Objection to DNR - If there is a dispute over applying a “Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation” (DNACPR) then consider sending a letter following this format the treating team.
  • Withdrawal of treatment (Adult) - If an adult is unconscious/partially conscious then withdrawal of treatment can be objected under the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
  • Withdrawal of treatment (Child) - If there is a plan to withhold or withdrawal life sustaining treatment from a child where there is no capacity for the child to consent.

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