Community care and the law
- Authors:
- CLEMENTS Luke, THOMPSON Pauline
- Publisher:
- Legal Action Group
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 951p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
This new edition considers the most significant case-law developments and all new legislation since 2004, including: Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (SVGA) 2006; Work and Families Act 2006; NHS Acts 2006 Mental Capacity Act 2005; Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum Seekers) Regulations 2005; Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004 Children Act 2004; Social Care Community Health and Standards) Act 2003. As well as revising all existing chapters, the authors have included new material on: mental capacity; rights of people unlawfully in the UK and of those seeking asylum; adult protection; hospital discharge; the 2007 National Framework for Continuing NHS Care Entitlement; new statutory complaints procedures for the NHS and social services; the legality of tightening eligibility criteria and funding panels; reform of the Direct Payments regimes; the radical reform of the NHS legislative framework.
- Subject terms:
- human rights, interagency cooperation, law, local authorities, NHS, needs, social services, social welfare law, assessment, carers, communities, community care;
- Content type:
- research
- ISBN print:
- 978 1 903307 47 2