Safeguarding adults and the law
Mandelstam, Michael
Safeguarding adults and the law - 2nd ed. - London : Jessica Kingsley, 2013. - 671 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The protection of vulnerable adults is an increasingly important issue right across health and social care. Safeguarding Adults and the Law now in its second edition, sets this complex area of work within a comprehensive legal framework and provides extensive guidance for practitioners and students. The book covers 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, 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 brings together an extensive body of case law to illustrate this. Also covered is how local authorities and the NHS may themselves be implicated in the harm - through abuse, neglect or omission - suffered by vulnerable adults. This fully-updated second edition comprehensively reflects recent changes to the law, and includes many new case studies. 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.
9781849053006 (pbk.) 1849053006 (pbk.)
Social services
Social work
Safeguarding adults
Aged
Disabilities
Legislation
Mental disorders
Mental health services
Vulnerable people
HV 136.
Safeguarding adults and the law - 2nd ed. - London : Jessica Kingsley, 2013. - 671 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The protection of vulnerable adults is an increasingly important issue right across health and social care. Safeguarding Adults and the Law now in its second edition, sets this complex area of work within a comprehensive legal framework and provides extensive guidance for practitioners and students. The book covers 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, 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 brings together an extensive body of case law to illustrate this. Also covered is how local authorities and the NHS may themselves be implicated in the harm - through abuse, neglect or omission - suffered by vulnerable adults. This fully-updated second edition comprehensively reflects recent changes to the law, and includes many new case studies. 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.
9781849053006 (pbk.) 1849053006 (pbk.)
Social services
Social work
Safeguarding adults
Aged
Disabilities
Legislation
Mental disorders
Mental health services
Vulnerable people
HV 136.