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Making safeguarding personal toolkit
- Author:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Local Government Association
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
The Making safeguarding personal toolkit aims to improve practice by supporting the application of strengths-based working across safeguarding and all areas practice. The toolkit includes a handbook which provides a guide to the best approach and effective application of safeguarding, linking to a range of helpful tools and practice-based case examples. The handbook is organised into three main sections: providing information and support in safeguarding; upholding the rights of people involved in safeguarding; and achieving resolution and recovery in safeguarding. The toolkit also contains additional links to resources and practice tools which can be used by individuals, in supervision, team meetings and other learning forums. A final section provides a number of case examples and reflective exercises to support application to safeguarding practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Putting the Mental Capacity Act principles at the heart of adult social care commissioning: a guide for compliance
- Authors:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES
- Publishers:
- Local Government Association, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 14
- Place of publication:
- London
Practice guidance developed to help embed the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) throughout the commissioning process in adult social care. The guidance provides good practice principles which will allow for MCA compliant commissioning, benchmarking and quality assurance with providers. The MCA is built on five guiding principles to ensure a person centred approach to decision making. These principles provide a framework for social care commissioners when commissioning services for people who may be unable to make some, or all decisions, about their care. This guide provides a general overview of the MCA and commissioning MCA compliant services. It then provides a list of areas to question for: each of the five guiding principles of the MCA; Lasting Power of Attorney; Advance decisions to refuse treatment; Independent Mental Capacity Advocate; and for audit and governance. A suggested template for commissioning activity with an MCA focus is also included. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care providers and the Mental Capacity Act 2015: advice for members of care providers' boards
- Author:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Local Government Association
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 10
- Place of publication:
- London
Explains what the Mental Capacity Act 2005 is and why it matters and is intended to help board members of care providers ensure vulnerable service users are not missing out on protections which are their legal right. The paper briefly discusses: capacity and consent; consent on someone else's behalf; acting where people lack capacity to make their own decisions; best interests; restraint and restriction of liberty; deprivation of liberty; and ill-treatment and neglect. The paper includes a table setting out some questions board members of care providers might want to ask their officers and managers to get assurance that the MCA is being properly applied throughout their organisations. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental Capacity Act 2005: a brief guide for providers of Shared Lives and other community services
- Author:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Local Government Association
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a brief guide to the main points of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 for providers of Shared Lives, Supported Living and similar schemes. It briefly explains what the Mental Capacity Act is, and why care providers need to know about it. It examines what mental capacity means, and how to decide if someone lacks capacity to take a particular decision. It explains what it means to act in the best interests of someone who cannot make a decision themselves, and how to think through what the person's best interests are. It also considers the main limits on what can be done in someone's best interest and sets out some other important aspects of the Act that care providers need to know about, looking at the role of independent mental capacity advocates, the public guardian's office, money and contracts, offences and the code of practice. (Edited publisher abstract)