

The final say
News
Must read

Families refusing access to support
Features Test


Producing robust capacity assessments and the approaches to assessing capacity

Disability discrimination and proportionality in housing management

Cross-border deprivation of liberty

Dealing with unexplained deaths and inquests

Court of Protection case update: May 2025
Features


Producing robust capacity assessments and the approaches to assessing capacity

Disability discrimination and proportionality in housing management

Cross-border deprivation of liberty

Dealing with unexplained deaths and inquests

Court of Protection case update: May 2025
Sponsored articles
What is the role of the National Trading Standards Estate & Letting Agency Team in assisting enforcement authorities?
Webinars
Is Omeprazole the new EDS?
More features

Provision of same-sex intimate care
Court of Protection case update: April 2025
High Court guidance on Article 3 engagement in care at home cases
‘Stitch’, capacity and complexity
Issuing proceedings in best interests cases
Court of Protection case law update: March 2025
The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill Series – Regulation and Inspection of Social Care
The Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill Series – Direct Payments for NHS Continuing Healthcare
What is the right approach to Care Act assessments?
Disabled people in immigration bail: the duties of the Home Office and local authorities
Capacity, insight and professional cultures
Court of Protection update: February 2025
Setting care home fees
Could this be the end for local authority-provided residential care?
“On a DoLS”
It’s all about the care plan
Court of Protection case update: January 2025
Mental capacity and expert evidence
Best interests, wishes and feelings
Capacity, sexual relations and public protection – another go-round before the Court of Appeal
Court of Protection Update - December 2024
Fluctuating capacity, the “longitudinal approach” and practical dilemmas
Capacity and civil proceedings
Recovering adult social care charges via insolvency administration orders
Court of Protection case update: October 2024
Communication with protected parties in legal proceedings
The way forward for CQC – something old, something new….
The Ombudsman, DoLS and triaging – asking the impossible?
Outsourcing and the Human Rights Act 1998 – the consequences
Commissioning care and support in Wales: new code of practice
Home Office reconsideration policy for victims of traffickiing unlawful, High Court judge rules
- Details
The High Court has ruled as unlawful a Home Office policy of allowing victims of trafficking seeking a reconsideration of a negative decision to approach it only through specified organisations.
Applications for DoLS by care homes and hospitals up 15% each year since 2014-15: report
- Details
The number of applications made by care homes and hospitals to local authorities under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) has increased by an average of 15.0% each year since 2014-15, official statistics from NHS Digital have revealed.
Ombudsman raps council for taking 21 months to reassess care needs of vulnerable woman
- Details
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) has criticised a council for taking 21 months to carry out a reassessment of a vulnerable woman’s care needs.
Judge criticises council for breaching duty of disclosure when making streamlined application for authorisation of deprivation of liberty
- Details
A council has been criticised by a Court of Protection judge for breaching the duty of full and frank disclosure when it made an application under the streamlined procedure for authorisation of a deprivation of liberty.
High Court judge finds council was right to tell failed asylum seeker to obtain support from Home Office
- Details
The London Borough of Southwark acted correctly when it told a failed asylum seeker that he must apply to the Home Office for support.
Council defeats costs application in High Court case on vulnerable adult and inherent jurisdiction
- Details
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council has successfully resisted an attempt to get a costs order against it by the parents of a vulnerable adult.
Page 202 of 270
Locums
Case Law Update
The final say
In association with...
Poll
in association with...
Directory
