Mental Capacity Act

Adults, Workforce, Mental Health

Providers should make many more applications to authorise deprivations of liberty, says CQC

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Court of Protection adds weight to social worker evidence in mental capacity assessments

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Government urges social workers to reassess cases for deprivations of liberty following Supreme Court ruling

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Supreme Court

Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Supreme Court ruling heralds sharp rise in Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards cases

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Adults

‘Risk-averse’ social workers need fundamental attitude change to comply with Mental Capacity Act, finds inquiry

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Adults, Mental Health

Scrap Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards to end unlawful detentions of people in care, urge peers

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Adults

Inspectors to examine Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards for human rights breaches

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Adults

Use of mental capacity advocates in safeguarding cases falls for second year running

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Why commissioning of mental capacity advocacy must change to protect rights of vulnerable

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Adults, Mental Health

Quarter of councils lack enough Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessors, warns CQC

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Katie Cairns and Darren Smith, Hillcroft Nursing Home

Adults, Workforce

Families hit out at safeguarding failings after care staff are jailed for abusing residents

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Adults

How adult social work dealt with practice and financial challenges in 2013

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Adults, Workforce

Mental Capacity Act code of practice under review but progress slow due to lack of civil servants

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Adults

Independent mental capacity advocates need more power to challenge social workers, House of Lords told

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Adults, Workforce

How some managers are directing social workers to breach the Mental Capacity Act

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Adults, Workforce

Care home staff excluded from assessments of residents facing move to supported living, peers told

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