£17,000 - the cost of getting Section 117 wrong
A recent Ombudsman report found a council was at fault for charging a woman a contribution to her residential care costs for 19 years...
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Care Act reviews under the spotlight
A recent Ombudsman report has highlighted the need to provide robust evidence for changes to care packages made following a Care Act...
- 1 day ago
Mental capacity to consume alcohol?
A recent Court of Protection judgment considered whether a 79 year old woman with alcohol related amnesia causing severe short term...
- Sep 11
Senior Housing Trust Managers Awarded £95k Compensation for Race Discrimination
The case was about two black candidates that applied for an internal position. Neither of them were offered the positions following...
- Aug 13
Updated guidance for Care Homes on Managing Acute Respiratory Outbreaks
Updated guidance on the management of acute respiratory infection outbreaks in care homes was published on 24 July 2024. The guidance...
- Aug 13
Violent Riots- Easy Read Resources
The Edge team have been horrified by the violent riots driven by racism and Islamophobia in recent days and hope all readers of our...
- Aug 12
Royal College of Surgeons- New Code of Conduct
Last month, the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) launched a new Code of Conduct with the aim of eradicating sexual misconduct in...
- Jul 17
Detention/supervision of people with mental disorder in England
The latest figures from the Court of Protection on community DoL applications have now been included in our ‘snap shot’ chart showing the...
- Jul 17
Deprivation of Liberty in the community – over 6,000 applications a year
The latest figures from the Court of Protection show that there were 6,210 applications for deprivation of liberty orders during the year...
- Jul 16
Record numbers of women accessing perinatal mental health support
More than 57,000 new and expectant mums have received specialist support for mental health problems over the last year, up a third on...
- Jul 11
The Care Act and disability-related expenditure (DRE) – what can be included?
A local authority has recently been found at fault by the Ombudsman because it failed to properly consider the cost of a personal trainer...
- Jul 8
Celebrating Social Workers - a judge in the Court of Protection
In a recent ruling from the Court of Protection the judge praised the work of the social worker in what was a very difficult situation....
- Jun 26
Court of Protection – updated assessment of capacity form
An updated version of the Court of Protection form COP3 that health and social care professionals complete to record their assessments of...
- Jun 26
Covert medication and the Mental Capacity Act
The use of covert medication was identified by the CQC in a recent inspection report (13 March 2024). Hilltop Hall nursing home received...
- Jun 21
NHS England Islamophobia Awareness Session- 26th June, 09.30-11.00
All NHS staff are invited to this staff development session on "Understanding Islamophobia," This session aims to provide valuable...
- Jun 19
Deprivation of liberty and children
Recently published figures show the large increase of deprivation of liberty orders for children of the last 7 years. The most recent...
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