Adult safeguarding

Adults

Poor multi-agency working a factor in case where self-neglecting woman died

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Adults

Fitting contraceptive patch in best interests of woman with severe learning disabilities, court rules

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Adults

Residents ‘may be offered moves’ from safeguarding enquiry care homes

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Adults

Do not suggest ‘do not resuscitate’ when someone is most vulnerable

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Mental Capacity Act

Adults

Perpetrators of adult abuse ‘getting derisory sentences’

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Adults

How can practitioners protect adults when third parties are in the way?

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Adults

‘Why we need to make elder abuse an imprisonable offence’

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Care Act

Adults

Government sets out Care Act funding allocations for 2016-17

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Adults

CQC finds staff at deaf college ridiculed young people for their disabilities

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Adults

One year on, what has the Care Act achieved?

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Adults

‘Care Act guidance on safeguarding must be clearer to ensure victims are protected’

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Adults

Modern slavery: would you spot the signs of the ‘unseen crime’?

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Adults

Care Act triggers surge in safeguarding cases

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Adults, Mental Health

Review of adult neglect case calls for guidance on handling obstructive families

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Tackling mate crime: ‘We focus on what positive relationships look like’

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Adults, Mental Health

Safeguarding bosses warned man died after ‘agency blindness’ left him without help

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