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Human Rights
Care homes, Coronavirus, and Human Rights
Rachel Griffiths Mental Capacity and Human Rights SpecialistThe phony war is over. After the weeks of ‘what should we do if this disease gets close to home?’,...
The risks of a ‘closed culture’
Rachel Griffiths Mental Capacity and Human Rights SpecialistIn recent internal guidance, CQC inspectors have been told to operate a ‘low threshold for deciding to carry out a...
Human Rights in Practice
Rachel Griffiths Mental Capacity and Human Rights Specialist‘I’m drowning in a great soup of law!” This is how a care home manager put it to me, when I...
Managing Risk When Someone Might Lack Capacity
Rachel Griffiths Mental Capacity and Human Rights SpecialistIt’s a real puzzle when someone who lacks capacity to understand risk is nonetheless determined to do something where you...
Making Visits Matter
Rachel Griffiths Mental Capacity and Human Rights SpecialistI do like the title of this recently published report into home care, based on a UNISON survey of 1,000...
What does a DoLS authorisation allow us to do?
Rachel Griffiths Mental Capacity and Human Rights SpecialistI’m inspired to take a look at this ‘deceptively simple’ question by David Beckenham’s excellent piece, on the powers the...
What does Human Rights have to do with Breakfast Time?
Rachel Griffiths Mental Capacity and Human Rights SpecialistHuman rights aren’t always popular, but they are a way of protecting the things that make life worth living for...
Lasting Powers of Attorney: Still A Good Thing
Rachel Griffiths Mental Capacity and Human Rights SpecialistI recently heard on the radio a retired judge saying some pretty startling things about Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs),...
Ombudsman’s focus report on the Mental Capacity Act
Rachel Griffiths Mental Capacity and Human Rights SpecialistThis is my second blog about the Ombudsman’s report, which is called ‘The Right to Decide: towards a greater understanding...
Supporting people to make their own decisions: more than just a slogan?
Rachel Griffiths Mental Capacity and Human Rights SpecialistThis foundation stone of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) is one of the five statutory principles, the one that says...
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