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Learning disability and human rights: a practitioner's guide
- Author:
- BRITISH INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Human Rights
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet provides information for practitioners about using a human rights approach in learning disability settings. It is aimed at professionals working in the community but is relevant for those working in learning disability services of all kinds. It focuses on three key issues for learning disabilities services: responding to behaviours of concern, which includes a decision making flowchart; responding to breakdown in care arrangements; and working with learning disabled people in relationships where risk is a factor, such as a potentially abusive partner. Each section outlines the main human rights issues that practitioners may encounter; offers suggestions for taking a human rights approach; provides information about the key rights most likely to be relevant to that area of practice; and worked examples. It is one of eight booklets developed as part of the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) project ‘Delivering Compassionate Care: Connecting Human Rights to the Frontline’, which aims to place human rights at the heart of mental health services and ensure frontline staff have the knowledge and skills uphold the dignity and human rights of the people using their service. The booklet is aimed at both qualified and unqualified staff. It also contains information that may be useful for people using services, their family, carers or advocates. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social care intervention and human rights: a practitioner's guide
- Author:
- BRITISH INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Human Rights
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet provides information for social care practitioners about using the Human Rights Act and human rights approaches in social care settings, where mental capacity or mental health is a factor. The booklet is in three sections covering: removing people from their own home to a care setting, which includes a decision making flowchart; adult safeguarding interventions and ‘unwise’ decisions; rights of learning disabled people to marry and have a family. Each section outlines potential human rights issues for practice; suggestions for taking a human rights approach; information about the key rights most likely to be relevant to that area of practice; and worked examples. It is one of eight booklets developed as part of the British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) project ‘Delivering Compassionate Care: Connecting Human Rights to the Frontline’, which aims to place human rights at the heart of mental health services and ensure frontline staff have the knowledge and skills uphold the dignity and human rights of the people using their service. The booklet is aimed at both qualified and unqualified staff. It also contains information that may be useful for people using services, their family, carers or advocates. (Edited publisher abstract)