Michael Mandelstam

Safeguarding Adults and the Law (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The safeguarding of vulnerable adults continues to increase in importance. Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its second edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students.

The book covers, for example, Department of Health guidelines, human rights, the regulation of health and social care providers, the barring of carers from working with vulnerable adults, care standards tribunal cases, mental capacity, undue influence, assault, battery, wilful neglect, ill treatment, self-neglect, manslaughter, murder, theft, fraud, sexual offences, data protection and the sharing of information. It focuses on how these areas of law apply to vulnerable adults, and uses the large body of case law to bring the law to life. Also covered is how local authorities and the NHS are implicated in causing harm - through abuse, neglect or omission - as exemplified by the independent and public inquiries into the catastrophic events at Stafford Hospital. This fully-updated second edition comprehensively reflects recent changes to the law, and includes many new case studies. It looks forward also to the implications, for safeguarding, of the draft Care and Support Bill 2012.

This book will be an essential resource for all those working in community care, adult social work, health care and housing. Those working for local authorities, the NHS, voluntary organisations and students will find it to be essential reading.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 664
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857006264
• Artikelnr.: 39259861

Autorenporträt

Michael Mandelstam provides independent legal training to local authorities, the NHS and voluntary organisations. In the past, he worked at the Disabled Living Foundation, a national voluntary organisation, and for a few years at the Social Services Inspectorate at the Department of Health. He holds postgraduate qualifications in law, information studies and the history of science and medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Overview of Themes and Chapters. 2. Safeguarding Law and
Policy. 3. Proportionate Interventions, the State, Human Rights (and
Discrimination Law). 4. Local Social Services Authorities: Pivotal Role in
Safeguarding. 5. The National Health Service: Law, Policy and Guidance on
Safeguarding. 6. The National Health Service: Systemic Poor Care and
Neglect. 7. Regulation of Health and Social Care Providers. 8. Regulation
of Health and Social Care Professionals. 9. Barring Workers: the Disclosure
and Barring Service. 10. Regulating Workers: Criminal Record Certificates.
11. Irregular Regulation: Whistle-blowing. 12. Mental Capacity. 13.
Inherent Jurisdiction of the High Court. 14. Interventions and Removal of
People from their own Homes (Including in Circumstances of Self-neglect).
15. Civil Orders and Housing Matters. 16. Sharing and Disclosure of
Personal and Other Information. 17. Criminal Justice: Prosecution,
Evidence, Protecting Victims and Coroners. 18. Criminal Justice Support for
Vulnerable Victims and Witnesses. 19. Criminal Justice Assistance for
Vulnerable Suspects. 20. Physical Harm and Abuse: Criminal Offences. 21.
Sexual Offences. 22. Financial Harm and Abuse: Criminal Offences. 23. Undue
Influence: Gifts, Wills (Law of Equity). 24. Harm and Civil Wrongs,
Including Negligence. 25. Restraint. References. Index.