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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.
On 17 March 2020 a report by Clive Sheldon QC was published. He had been appointed by the FA back in December 2016 to carry out an independent review into allegations of sexual abuse by coaches and scouts working in youth football between 1970 and 2005.
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The Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Crisis Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 is due to come into force on 4 May 2021. It’s a snappy title but what exactly is it?
In June 2020 the University of Birmingham published a research briefing exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child protection practice.
Nazareth Care Charitable Trust which operates a care home in Bonnyrigg, Scotland, recently received a fine after a resident at one of its care homes suffered a fatal injury after falling down a flight of stairs.
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