duty of care… MCA: Advance decision to refuse treatment 24 Feb 2019 On October 25th 2007 22 year old EG gave birth to twins at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. A few hours later she was dead because she refused to accept a…
Courses… After the mental capacity assessment 28 Jan 201927 Jan 2019 Assessing mental capacity is one thing but what happens next? What must we do once we know that a person lacks the mental capacity to make this particular decision at…
law… What is mental capacity? 4 Jan 201929 Dec 2018 Mental capacity is the ability to make your own decisions. It's assessed using a straightforward two-part test which is much easier to deal with than most people think: Part 1:…
duty of care… MCA: Who decides? 31 Dec 201829 Dec 2018 When assessing an individual’s mental capacity it is important that we confine ourselves to assessing that person’s ability to make this particular decision (or type of decision) at this time.…
duty of care… Who put us in charge? 15 Jul 201816 Jul 2018 A short video introduction to the principles of the mental capacity act 2005. Who put us in charge? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDf7gtD7G_Q If you'd like to arrange training for your staff please complete…
challenging behaviour… Social and mental health care training 15 Feb 201729 Apr 2017 I've been getting a lot of new inquiries lately, which is wonderful. It seems that training budgets are becoming available to the small specialist trainers again without organisations having to…
duty of care… Doing the rights thing 31 Dec 2016 So many nationalists talk about how great UK is. They cite our history, particularly 20th century history and the post-war society they grew up in. And I agree - for…
law… Course design 13: Take the time to tell the tale 26 Aug 20153 May 2016 The following is the text of an article I first wrote for ‘Local government Lawyer’ magazine. You can find it online here: http://localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7057%3Alessons-in-law&catid=52%3Aadult-social-services-articles&q=&Itemid=20 “Lessons in law Thursday, 23 June 2011…
duty of care… Privileged glimpses 25: Who put us in charge? 14 May 20152 May 2016 This series of blog posts first appeared a few years ago on a now defunct blog called ‘Care Training’. It was inspired by the training maxim of ‘making the unconscious…
