Safeguarding adults and the law - Mandelstam, Michael (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2013)
Revised edition of: Safeguarding vulnerable adults and the law / Michael Mandelstam. 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index
Overview of themes and chapters -- Safeguarding law and policy -- Proportionate interventions, the state, human rights (and discrimination law) -- Local social services authorities : pivotal role in safeguarding -- The national health service : law, policy and guidance on safeguarding -- The national health service : systemic poor care and neglect -- Regulation of health and social care providers -- Regulation of health and social care professionals -- Barring workers : the disclosure and barring service -- Regulating workers : criminal record certificates -- Irregular regulation : whistle-blowing -- Mental capacity -- Inherent jurisdiction of the high court -- Interventions and removal of people from their own homes (including in circumstances of self-neglect) -- Civil orders and housing matters -- Sharing and disclosure of personal and other information -- Criminal justice : prosecution, evidence, protecting victims and coroners -- Criminal justice support for vulnerable victims and witnesses -- Criminal justice assistance for vulnerable suspects -- Physical harm and abuse : criminal offences -- Sexual offences -- Financial harm and abuse : criminal offences -- Undue influence : gifts, wills (law of equity) -- Harm and civil wrongs, including negligence -- Restraint
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, mu