Judicial review of the policy adopted by Salford City Council (‘the Council’) for calculating the amount of financial assistance to be provided under section 17 of the Children Act 1989 (‘the 1989 Act’) to meet the needs of children and their parents who are destitute as they had no accommodation and no means of providing for their living requirements, in circumstances where the parents are non-British nationals who, by reason of their immigration status, are not eligible to claim social security benefits or housing benefits.
Judges:
Mr Justice Lewis
Citations:
[2014] EWHC 3537 (Admin), [2015] PTSR 157
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Local Government, Benefits
Updated: 05 February 2022; Ref: scu.538041
