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Legislation & Policies
N v ACCG: a landmark Supreme Court Judgement on the role of Court of Protection
A significant ruling by Lady Hale yesterday in the Supreme Court is being reported and commented on today, which (if I understand correctly) will have significant impact on how the Court of Protection undertakes its role in future.
The most important article has appeared here on the Court of Protection Handbook website under the headline “Best interests, available options, and case management before the Court of Protection – the Supreme Court pronounces”.
Law Commission Report: implications for human rights and restricting powers of health and care professionals
Expert on disability law and (currently occasional) blogger Lucy Series has just posted her initial thoughts on the law Commission proposals for the replacement of the current Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS). These may be found on here on her Small Places website.
As Lucy says, there is a lot to think about… but her thoughts on the implications of the proposals for human rights issues are very interesting. Below I reproduce an excerpt from the blog article . The emboldening and underling of text is mine – an attempt to highlight what parents and family carers may find particularly interesting.
Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (ADMC Act) enacted in the Republic of Ireland
We are aware that many UK residents and British citizens have family ties or other links to the Republic of Ireland, and may be interested in the new legislation relating to learning disability and capacity enacted in December 2015. The (ADMC Act) provided a long-overdue update and reform of legislation in the Republic.
History of Legislation on Disability
Note: The following article is awaiting update on legislation enacted after 2012.
For information on the most recently enacted legislation, i.e. The Children and Families Act 2014 and The Care Act 2014, please see the individual articles under the ‘Legislation & Policies’ menu, or follow the links at the end of this article.
The Children and Families Act 2014 – a Guide to Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans
This guide first appeared in Resnews 2015.2.
The EHC reforms discussed are the consequence of the Children and Families Act 2014.
A Guide to Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans
Rescare Guide to Learning Disability and Work Related Benefits
To accompany our Guide to the Care Act – recently posted to the Legislation & Policies section of our website, after first being published in 2015 editions of our newsletter Resnews – we have decided to publish other ‘user guides’ first published in Resnews during 2015. This guide appeared in Resnews 2015.3. Note one of the benefits of membership of Rescare is receipt of Resnews on a quarterly basis.
A Guide to Learning Disability and Work Related Benefits
Rescare Guide to Personal Budgets (published in Resnews 2014.4)
To accompany our Guide to the Care Act – recently posted to the Legislation & Policies section of our website, after first being published in 2015 editions of our newsletter Resnews – we have decided to publish other ‘user guides’ first published in Resnews during 2015. This guide appeared in Resnews 2015.4. Note one of the benefits of membership of Rescare is receipt of Resnews on a quarterly basis.
The Care Act 2014 – A User Guide
This ‘User Guide’ to the Care Act 2014 appeared in four parts in consecutive editions of Resnews 2015-16. (Resnews is the quarterly newsletter to our members). The Guide was generally well-received, and we publish it here in the hope that it will inform and help a wider audience.
The Care Act – What will it Mean for You? (Part 1 – from Resnews Summer ’15)
The Care Act 2014
The Care Act 2014 was enacted in 2014. As of April 2015, the Act and supporting guidance place a series of new duties and responsibilities on local authorities about care and support for adults.
The Act has been described as the most significant legislative change affecting care provision ‘in the last 60 years’ or ‘since the introduction of the Welfare State in 1948’. It supersedes much previous legislation and associated statutory guidance.
(The Care Act applies only to England, but other UK legislation has much in common with it: residents of Wales will be affected by the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 , and of Scotland by the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013). Continue reading
Health and Social Care Act 2012
The Health and Social Care Act 2012, enacted on 27th March, is the most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date. It proposes the abolition of NHS primary care trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs). Thereafter, £60 to £80 billion of “commissioning”, or health care funds, would be transferred from the abolished PCTs to several hundred “clinical commissioning groups”, partly run by the general practitioners (GPs) in England. Continue reading
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Going slightly mad trying to maintain a web page on Covid-19 'Information and Advice'. I CAN say that latest guidance on any issue or sector will be on GOV.UK - but, hell's teeth, they do issue an incredible number of updates. The guidance on Supported Living (in which as a parent I have a personal interest) was updated again(!) on 25th November and is now as long as one of my old university essays. Just checked - 7815 words! The link is now on this page: www.rescare.org.uk/coronavirus-information-and-advice/ Coronavirus: Information and Advice - Rescare www.rescare.org.uk I had asked myself (and been asked) "Where are people with learning disabilities in 'schedule' for Covid-19 vaccination?". I have now learnt that they are in Priority Group 6. This article by Gus Alexiou argues that priority should be far higher... Covid-19 Vaccine Plans Must Prioritize People With Learning Disabilities www.forbes.com A depressing look into the future. At the back of my mind, I seem to remember commitments made at the start of the pandemic to reform of social care and to the need for the convergence of health and social care. Spending Review a ‘catastrophe’ for social care, say sector leaders www.homecareinsight.co.uk
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