Social work with vulnerable adults is becoming increasingly centred on a key piece of legislation: the Mental Capacity Act. The Act provides a framework for protecting the vulnerable while allowing those who may lack capacity to have certain safeguards enshrined in law.
This book will help support students to learn two things: first, how the Mental Capacity Act operates and what its key principles are when applied to safeguarding adults; and second, what are the compassionate skills and values that need to be interwoven with legislative knowledge? The authors show how these two principles interact and inform one another and how taking a person-centred approach to safeguarding vulnerable adults will mean better outcomes for the individual and our wider society.
- ISBN10 1473907543
- ISBN13 9781473907546
- Publish Date 26 October 2015 (first published 12 October 2015)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher SAGE Publications Ltd
- Imprint Learning Matters Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English
- URL https://uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book244078