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Delivering Dignity is the latest in a line of reports highlighting deficiencies in adult care. While these reports are important, what everyone really wants to see is resulting improvements on the front line of service delivery.
Greater clarity in the legal obligations on service providers would help, and there is perhaps reason to be more optimistic than usual for this. Change truly is in the air. The government has just launched a consultation on a radical simplification of safeguarding guidance relating to children, and in July we should see the long-awaited White Paper on adult care, which hopefully will follow the Law Commission’s call for a radical simplification of adult social care law.
If government simply sets out clear legal obligations, leaving the service providers with the responsibility of working out how to meet them, this could play a large part in achieving the “major cultural shift” which Delivering Dignity calls for.
From 6 April 2022, right to work checks on all migrant or settled prospective employees must be online and checks on British or Irish nationals will be manual (free) or digital (charged for).
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The long-awaited draft Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice, including the Liberty Protection Safeguards (“LPS”), has landed.
Since 11 November 2021, workers in regulated care homes in England have been required to be vaccinated against Covid-19, unless they are exempt in accordance with the Health and Social Care Act 2008.
Following the Supreme Court decision in CN & GN -v- Poole Borough Council [2019] and other subsequent cases, it is now established law that the mere fact that various steps are taken by local authorities in the discharge of its child protection functions is not enough to give rise to an assumption of responsibility.
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