Community care practice and the law / Michael Mandelstam.
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TextPublisher: London : Jessica Kingsley, c2009Edition: 4th editionDescription: 640 pContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781846428593 (ebook)Subject(s): Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain | Social service -- Great Britain | Community health services -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain | Law | Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law | Social security & welfare law | Social welfare & social services | Social work | Public health & safety law | Disability & the law | Administrative jurisdiction & public administrationGenre/Form: Online access: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9781843106913Summary: This text offers a comprehensive up-to-date guide to community care law, and discusses in detail with knowledge and insight into policy and practice, offering all the advice needed to provide a better understanding of the new legislation. This fourth edition of Community Care Practice and the Law has been fully updated to reflect the rapid and continuing legal, policy and practice changes affecting community care. It provides comprehensive and jargon-free explanations of community care legislation, as well as other areas of law directly relevant to practitioners, including the NHS, disabled facilities grants and housing adaptations, asylum and immigration, mental capacity, human rights, disability discrimination, health and safety at work and negligence - and a range of legal provisions relevant to the protection and safeguarding of adults.Apart from the burgeoning legal case law and ombudsman investigations, changes from the last edition include coverage of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, legal implications of 'self directed care' and 'individual budgets', changes to direct payments and 'ordinary residence' determinations. In particular, new guidance applies to the high profile issue of NHS continuing health care.The book is an essential guide for practitioners and managers in both the statutory and voluntary sectors, policy makers in local authorities and the NHS, advocates, lawyers and social work students.
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This text offers a comprehensive up-to-date guide to community care law, and discusses in detail with knowledge and insight into policy and practice, offering all the advice needed to provide a better understanding of the new legislation. This fourth edition of Community Care Practice and the Law has been fully updated to reflect the rapid and continuing legal, policy and practice changes affecting community care. It provides comprehensive and jargon-free explanations of community care legislation, as well as other areas of law directly relevant to practitioners, including the NHS, disabled facilities grants and housing adaptations, asylum and immigration, mental capacity, human rights, disability discrimination, health and safety at work and negligence - and a range of legal provisions relevant to the protection and safeguarding of adults.Apart from the burgeoning legal case law and ombudsman investigations, changes from the last edition include coverage of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, legal implications of 'self directed care' and 'individual budgets', changes to direct payments and 'ordinary residence' determinations. In particular, new guidance applies to the high profile issue of NHS continuing health care.The book is an essential guide for practitioners and managers in both the statutory and voluntary sectors, policy makers in local authorities and the NHS, advocates, lawyers and social work students.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9781843106913
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