A recent Ombudsman ruling was critical of the failure to properly assess the mental capacity of a woman in relation to residence and...

The School of Law at Leeds University has produced a toolkit with a range of resources for health and social care professionals around...

Mr Y lives at home with his family. The LGSCO found that   "There was a delay in assessing...Mr Y’s social care needs and Ms X's ( mother...

A recent Ombudsman case has looked at the duty of AMHPs to inform Nearest Relatives of their rights and powers. Download the report from:...

The Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman has just released a case concerning the failure of six different care providers over one...

A recent Court of Protection judgment considered the case of a 79 year old woman with alcohol related amnesia causing severe short term...

A recently published national report on Safeguarding Adults Reviews (534 people died) noted concerns over the failure of health and...

The Court of Protection has recently published a useful case highlighting why and when a personal welfare (rather than financial) deputy...

Research published in the British Journal of Social Work shows that while stress is increasingly a daily part of social workers’ lives –...

A recent Ombudsman report found a council was at fault because: ‘Although the Council assessed Mr D eligible for care services in July...

The law firm Rook Irwin Sweeney have created a free resource  dedicated to template letters and guidance in order to assist parents to...

In a recently published case, a judge questioned the delay by an NHS Trust in bringing a case to court promptly. Unfortunately, this is a...

A recent Ombudsman report found a council was at fault for charging a woman a contribution to her residential care costs for 19 years...

A recent Ombudsman report has highlighted the need to provide robust evidence for changes to care packages made following a Care Act...

A recent Court of Protection judgment considered whether a 79 year old woman with alcohol related amnesia causing severe short term...

The case was about two black candidates that applied for an internal position. Neither of them were offered the positions following...