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Human rights: how do they work in practice?

November 30, 2021
Still confused on how human rights law and how it applies to the way you care for others? Don’t worry, Rachel Griffiths, Mental Capacity Act and Human Rights Consultant, is…
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LPS and DoLS – How are they different?

July 22, 2021
Liberty Protection Safeguards The Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) will take over from the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), probably in April 2022. In very real ways, they are much alike.…
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Beyond Euro 2020

July 12, 2021
Last night our fantastic England football team once again represented us spectacularly. Throughout the championships they have demonstrated the power of diversity. We applaud what they have done both on…
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Human Rights Quiz

February 16, 2021
Do you know how far should residential’s personal freedom be limited? Are you familiar with what rights are protected by Article 5 of the Human Rights Act? Take the quiz…
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What is Unconscious Bias

July 20, 2020
Our human brains are programmed to survive and, as such, we are constantly assessing risks around us. The assessments we make include the appraisal of others. We might judge somebody…
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Care homes, Coronavirus, and Human Rights

March 13, 2020
  The phony war is over.  After the weeks of ‘what should we do if this disease gets close to home?’, suddenly there are more and more care homes reporting…
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The risks of a ‘closed culture’

January 31, 2020
In recent internal guidance, CQC inspectors have been told to operate a ‘low threshold for deciding to carry out a responsive inspection’ in homes that they consider to be at…
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Human Rights in Practice

January 30, 2018
‘I’m drowning in a great soup of law!” This is how a care home manager put it to me, when I made some passing comment about the value of human…
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