Stephensons’ has an unrivalled pool of expertise and experience in this specialist area of the law. We are currently appointed by over 10 local authority councils as part of Framework Agreements covering the following areas: Child Care, Crime, Employment and Housing.

We have also been appointed to the Framework Agreement for Costings work for the HMRC. We have a long history of successfully delivering legal services at a high quality level to these clients. Stephensons sets client satisfaction as its first priority. We aim to develop long term mutually beneficial relationships. It is no accident that a significant number of our local authority clients in several departments date back 10 to over 20 years.

We believe in developing a partnering approach adding value to our clients, we provide combination of expertise, experienced personnel and sophisticated internal systems. We have provided training and secondment opportunities to several of our clients and we have adapted our reporting and Case Management Systems to provide the most responsive service we can.

The team operates on principles based on public service for the greater good of the local community. The management of the department is founded on best value principles of better quality services at reasonable cost. The ethos of the firm is to improve opportunities and quality of life for local people.

In addition to working with Local Authorities, team members are committed to working on both a fee paying and a voluntary basis for a variety of public bodies. These include Families That Last (After Adoption’s Adoption Agency), Catholic Children Rescue Society, The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford, Child Concern, Cafcass and The Official Solicitor. 

You can feel secure in the knowledge that Stephensons has specialist knowledge, as we are recognised in The Legal 500 in the field of Public Sector, Local Government.