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Author Mandelstam, Michael, 1956-

Title Community care practice and the law / Michael Mandelstam
Edition 4th ed
Published London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (640 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Overview of community care -- Underlying themes -- Non-judicial remedies -- Judicial remedies -- Assessment: referral and eligibility -- Reassessing, withdrawing, and waiting -- Care plans and provision of services -- Residential accommodation -- Charging for residential accommodation disregard -- Non-residential services -- Charging for non-residential services -- Direct payments, carers, families with children in need etc -- Asylum seekers and other people subject to immigration control -- Housing and home adaptations -- National health service provision -- NHS continuing health care -- Joint working between local authorities and the nhs organisations -- Mental capacity -- Protecting and safeguarding vulnerable adults
Summary This fourth edition of Community Care Practice and the Law has been fully updated to reflect the rapid and continuing legal, policy and practice changes affecting community care. It provides comprehensive and jargon-free explanations of community care legislation, as well as other areas of law directly relevant to practitioners
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 604-630) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
Social service -- Great Britain
Community health services -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
Community Health Services -- legislation & jurisprudence
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Community health services -- Law and legislation
Public welfare -- Law and legislation
Social service
SUBJECT United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
Subject Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846428593
1846428599