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Human Rights
Human Rights Quiz
Do you know how far should residential's personal freedom be limited? Are you familiar with what rights are protected by...
What is Unconscious Bias
Our human brains are programmed to survive and, as such, we are constantly assessing risks around us. The assessments we...
Care homes, Coronavirus, and Human Rights
The 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’
In recent internal guidance, CQC inspectors have been told to operate a ‘low threshold for deciding to carry out a...
Human Rights in Practice
‘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
It’s a real puzzle when someone who lacks capacity to understand risk is nonetheless determined to do something where you...
Making Visits Matter
I 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?
I’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?
Human 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
I recently heard on the radio a retired judge saying some pretty startling things about Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs),...