Mental Capacity Act

Adults, Workforce, Mental Health

New laws for deprivation of liberty in supported living to be drafted by 2017

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Lyn Romeo

Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Chief social worker: ‘Tell us how the Mental Health Act code of practice can better support you’

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David Pearson

Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

‘We are getting to the point where funding is unsustainable if we want to meet need appropriately’ – Adass chief

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Adults, Mental Health, Deprivation of liberty, Workforce

Demand for best interest assessor training rockets following Supreme Court ruling

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Adults, Mental Health

Supreme Court ruling triggers sharp rise in deprivation of liberty notifications to CQC

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Adults, Mental Health

NHS failings in cases of three learning disabled people used as catalyst to tackle institutional care

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Children, Adults

New law criminalises forced marriage

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Adults

Man ‘left in squalor’ after errors assessing his mental capacity, ombudsman finds

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Adults

Government wants all qualified social workers trained in Mental Capacity Act

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Government rejects call to scrap Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Deprivation of liberty cases will rise ten-fold due to Supreme Court ruling, say councils

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Supreme Court ruling leaves little room for doubt over deprivations of liberty in care

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Councils urged to train more social workers as best interests assessors following Supreme Court ruling

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

‘All too often dementia in older age leads to professionals disregarding human rights’

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Protecting Our Parents

Adults

Replay our online discussion of second episode of Protecting Our Parents

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Dr Peter Wallis

Adults

Social work on film: Bringing the older people’s care ‘crisis’ to the small screen

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