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Farewell National Assistance Act | The Small Places
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Resources on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Resources on legal capacity and the UN CRPD. New to the UN CRPD. Farewell National Assistance Act. April 1, 2015. The National Assistance Act 1948. Is dead, long live the Care Act 2014. Today, the adult social care provisions of the Care Act come into force. 66 years after the National Assistance Act 1948 laid the foundations of modern adult social care. The last of the great post-war Beveridge Statutes will pass out of law. The National Assistance Act was deepl...
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About | The Small Places
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Resources on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Resources on legal capacity and the UN CRPD. New to the UN CRPD. This blog is written by Lucy Series. A researcher at the Centre for Health and Social Care Law. At Cardiff Law School. Lucy’s research interests include legal capacity and human rights, especially in health and social care services. She is currently working on a project about the Court of Protection. This blog used to be hosted on a different webpage. In her speech, Roosevelt said:. 90% PUBLIC PSYC...
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Head on over to RightsInfo | The Small Places
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Resources on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Resources on legal capacity and the UN CRPD. New to the UN CRPD. Head on over to RightsInfo. June 26, 2015. This is a super quick post as I grab ten minutes of internet in a cafe! But you should all head over to Adam Wagner’s AMAZING new infographic on human rights. It tells the story of how key human rights cases have shaped the rights we have today. It’s pretty hard to read this and remain sceptical about the value of the European Convention. June 26, 2015.
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Intrinsic and extrinsic vulnerability | The Small Places
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Resources on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Resources on legal capacity and the UN CRPD. New to the UN CRPD. Intrinsic and extrinsic vulnerability. June 11, 2015. The Daily Mail ran a story today. As I said, there isn’t a published judgment and this is just judicial musings, but they’re very interesting nevertheless. The Court of Protection is a statutory court established by the Mental Capacity Act 2005. To understand the information relevant to the decision,. To retain that information,. This part of th...
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The place of law in care | The Small Places
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Resources on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Resources on legal capacity and the UN CRPD. New to the UN CRPD. The place of law in care. June 25, 2015. To law. I grew up in the shadow of two types of litigation that had major consequences for my life and my family. Perhaps that has made me more sensitive to law those years of amassing evidence, giving evidence, rebutting evidence, waiting for lawyers to call and judges to make decisions. Limits to what we could do in the name of care, beyond what our manage...
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How long do your DoLS assessments take? | The Small Places
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Resources on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Resources on legal capacity and the UN CRPD. New to the UN CRPD. How long do your DoLS assessments take? July 31, 2015. Cornwall Council’s DoLS team is undertaking a survey to find out how long assessments by Best Interests Assessors take. The lead contact for the survey is Paul Wilkins ( pwilkins@cornwall.gov.uk. And the survey link is here. Survey closes Friday 21st August 5pm. July 31, 2015. What do we need deprivation of liberty safeguards for? Thank you Luc...
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So, what’s the plan to save human rights? | The Small Places
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Resources on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Resources on legal capacity and the UN CRPD. New to the UN CRPD. So, what’s the plan to save human rights? May 12, 2015. Human rights, he answered, human rights and equality. We started seeing service users as people, just like us. Of the introduction of human rights and equality legislation into his workplace that helped to foster a radically different attitude from care workers towards service users. An attitude that recognise their common humanity, and le...
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Awesome conference! | The Small Places
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Resources on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Resources on legal capacity and the UN CRPD. New to the UN CRPD. June 12, 2015. Get your diaries out and pencil in 30th September for an amazing conference (I’m not saying that because I’m speaking at it, I’m saying it because I’ve just seen who. Is speaking at it! I’m very lazy, so I’ll just copy this from Alex Ruck Keene’s blog. I am really delighted to be able to announce details of a major conference. The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
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Taking Stock | The Small Places
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Resources on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Resources on legal capacity and the UN CRPD. New to the UN CRPD. April 13, 2015. I’ve just received the poster for this year’s Taking Stock conference in October. It looks set to be really interesting; book your places now! You can download the poster from here. April 13, 2015. Taking Stock (book your place! Farewell National Assistance Act. Nonhuman rights and legal capacity →. One thought on “ Taking Stock. April 13, 2015 at 10:41 am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Bits and bobs | The Small Places
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Resources on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Resources on legal capacity and the UN CRPD. New to the UN CRPD. April 28, 2015. A few bits and bobs in lieu of a real post! Report on transparency in the Court of Protection. Overview of the legal framework, and some shortcomings therein, and the discussions of the roundtable. We make a number of recommendations for further areas of research and issues that may need addressing in future reforms. You can download the report here. April 28, 2015. Dr Series, I rea...
