The law relating to the Court of Protection is complicated and there are few useful books and articles about it that are readily available. Also the Court is changing. It was decided to invite a number of people to produce, brief, clear outlines of the law on a number of ...
This workshop was arranged to bring together those who were at the leading edge of developing quality assurance in community care for people with learning difficulties, those with mental health problems, people with physical disabilities and frail elderly people. Three main issues were examined: the definition of quality assurance in ...
This is the third paper by the authors on managing the relocation of psychiatric services from large institutions to new patterns of local provision. It offers a summary of their current thinking about the characteristics of an assessment and resettlement model which would be compatible with the wider planning issues ...
The author documents the harm caused by secure institutions. Policy makers must accept that a search for other models of care is necessary, otherwise the institutions remaining will never be able to meet the diverse needs of their inhabitants. This book makes the case for 'flexible' institutions which would offer ...
This research project is the result of collaboration by the following organisations:- The King's Fund; London Boroughs Training Committee; London Voluntary Services Council; National Institute of Social Work; Age Concern Greater London. It was financed by the King's Fund. The limits of altruism explores the social and psychological processes which ...
The Advice and Legal Representation Project, set up in 1982, was the first legal and advice service for people with mental health problems to be based within a psychiatric hospital. The Project offers a free and independent service to hospital-based psychiatric patients. As it was a unique venture, the Project ...
Representation before Mental Health Review Tribunals has been the most problematic area in the relationship between the hospital and the Project. This paper is the result of a wish to examine the problems caused by representation at MHRTs by Project workers. the paper is in three parts: the mental health ...
Those who have been suffering from mental health problems present particularly difficult problems with re-integration into the community. This project paper examines a scheme for volunteer support for discharged psychiatric patients. With the help of a grant from Oxford R.H.A. a befriending scheme was set up and this report describes ...
The conference aimed to bring together practitioners in housing, social services and psychiatry; to explore the links and gaps, the successes and the failings; and to point out some signposts for future development of service to meet needs. In particular, the conference explored three themes: 1) the varying definitions of ...
This paper is about the service needs of people who have mental health problems and who exhibit persistently anti-social behaviour of a kind likely to result in their appearance before a criminal court. In this document these people have been termed `lost souls'.