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Safeguarding adults enquiries: do you need consent?
Jan 23, 2024 · Should the person refuse any action being taken, it would be helpful to reflect on this very important section from 39 Essex Chambers’ Mental Capacity Guidance Note: Assessment and Recording of Capacity: ‘… If you have proper reason to think that the person may lack capacity to take a relevant decision, especially if the consequence of what they are wanting to do is likely to lead to ...
The Victoria Climbié Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on
Apr 11, 2024 · Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary.. More than 20 years after delivering his report into the death of Victoria Climbié, there is still a quiet sadness about Lord Herbert Laming at the mention of her name.
Social work through the decades: a timeline - Community Care
Oct 28, 2024 · As part of Community Care’s 50th anniversary, we’ve spent much of this year reflecting on the pivotal events that have shaped the social work profession over the past five decades.. This has included in-depth interviews with key sector figures, such as Herbert Laming, Eileen Munro, June Thoburn and David Howe, and Professor Ray Jones’s ‘Social work across the decades‘ series, which ...
Baby P 10 years on: social work’s story - Community Care
In August 2007, 17-month-old Peter Connelly was found dead in his cot after months of cruelty from those who were meant to care for him most. His mother Tracey, her boyfriend Steven Barker, and his brother, Jason Owen, were convicted of “causing or allowing” his death.
What is the role of social workers? - Community Care
Sep 20, 2010 · An article exploring the role of social workers in a UK context. In 2009, concerned that existing definitions of social work were difficult for the profession and the public to engage with, the government-appointed Social Work Taskforce issued a public description of social work, which was designed to improve public understanding of the profession: ...
How to develop critical reflection in your practice
Aug 14, 2024 · Reflective practice is more myth than reality? No? This was the view of Schon in 1986 and the forms of words used or ‘thought-forms’ (Laske) to describe what’s written more accurately are missing in the references cited; is the desire to fill the emptiness or void a proof that social work has a formulation of what reflection, is, and …
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What the 'least restrictive option' means under the Mental …
Dec 18, 2012 · Social care practitioners can be unclear about what is meant by using the “least restrictive option” to support people under the Mental Capacity Act. In this article, reproduced with kind permission from the English Community Care Association newsletter, Rachel Griffiths explains how they should apply this principle.
analysis of the 12 missed opportunities in Victoria Climbie’s case
Feb 21, 2002 · Neil Garnham QC highlighted 12 missed opportunities to protect Victoria Climbie in his closing evidence to the Laming inquiry this week.Lauren Revans, Sally Gillen