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Changes to capacity Bill leave too many loopholes
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 17(4), May 2004, p.5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Looks at recent changes made to the Mental Capacity Bill. Looks at the existing weaknesses in the Bill and argues that the concerns many people with learning difficulties had about the Bill dealing with decision making for 'incompetent persons' have not been addressed.
Your guide to the Mental Capacity Bill
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 27.7.04, 2004, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the main areas of the Mental Capacity Bill, which covers England and Wales.
A guide to the Mental Incapacity/Capacity Bill 2003
- Authors:
- CURRAN Christopher, GRIMSHAW Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 128, July 2004, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Provides an overview of the Mental Incapacity/Capacity Bill 2003.
What matters is what works
- Author:
- DAVIES Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 72, Spring 2004, pp.10-12.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
Conwy Connect helps people with learning difficulties to take part in making decisions that effect their lives, and an opportunity to participate in the planning of services. Explains what they do and how they do it.
Mind the gap
- Author:
- SCHWEHR Belinda
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 4.02.04, 2004, pp.11-13.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Six years ago, in the Bournewood case, the Law Lords suggested that mental health legislation regarding incapacitated adults would need revisting. Looks at how, six years on, nothing has changed.
Ethical dilemmas in Community Learning Disabilities Nursing
- Author:
- HOLLOWAY Dave
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 8(3), September 2004, pp.283-298.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Community learning disability nurses (CLDNs) sometimes face ethical dilemmas arising from choices made by people with learning disabilities. This article reports on the results of a postal questionnaire that asked a sample of CLDNs in England and Wales about support available to them to assist in resolving these dilemmas. They were also asked about their knowledge and use of best interests guidelines. Differences were reported in the availability of support, such as policies and procedures, training, and ethical committees, to help in the areas of relationships and lifestyle, finance, and health care. Additional support was identified by respondents, and the most helpful to CLDNs are characterized by the provision of reflective opportunity and the ability to discuss issues with colleagues and other professionals. This support included talking to colleagues, reflective practice, multidisciplinary working, clinical supervision, access to the evidence base, and training.
Deciding for ourselves
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, March 2004, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The author, a member of People First, explains why people with learning disabilities are campaigning against the Mental Incapacity Bill.
Risk assessment: actuarial prediction and clinical judgement of offending incidents and behaviour for intellectual disability services
- Authors:
- LINDSAY William R., BEAIL Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(4), December 2004, pp.229-234.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Research on prediction of violent and sexual offending behaviour has developed considerably in the mainstream criminological literature. Work on actuarial instruments, dynamic variables, clinical judgement and structured clinical judgement is reviewed. A number of studies comparing actuarial instruments in terms of their predictive validity are reviewed. Relative effectiveness and applicability to intellectual disability is considered. A framework for dynamic variables is outlined and the importance of dynamic variables for inclusion in risk prediction is established. Strengths and limitations of clinical judgement are reported and the importance of reliability is noted. Finally, structured clinical judgement is reviewed in terms of the way in which it combines the other three groups of variables. The information regarding different methods of risk assessment is integrated with research and opinion. Risk prediction will always be a judgement and as such there will always be errors in judgement. As clinicians, researchers and policy makers it is our duty to employ the latest research information to make predictions that are as accurate as possible. However, we must also help to promote a culture that can be tolerant of inevitable errors.
Finding a voice
- Author:
- COCKBURN Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 5.10.04, 2004, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
A draft code of practice, published to accompany the Mental Capacity Bill through parliament, clarifies the law on decision making for people who lack mental capacity. Discusses the opinions of practitioners who say the legislation will have no power unless it provides for independent advocates.
Does the bill add up?
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.7.04, 2004, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Takes a critical look at the new Mental Capacity Bill. Although it takes on some of the critisims levelled at the previous draft, campaigners are still arguing about items in the new Bill.