Safeguarding

Opinion: What Liberty Protection Safeguards mean for social workers

The UK and Welsh Government have published plans to introduce delayed Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS), after a consultation was launched in March. Adult Social Care Practice Lead at OLM Systems, Stef Lunn, who also works as a frontline social worker in a disability transitions team, considers what it means for people in care.

Adult Care Headlines Health Safeguarding

Appointment of first Patient Safety Commissioner approved

Adult Features & Opinion Headlines Physical Disabilities Safeguarding

Feature: How accessible is charging an electric car?

Children Families Headlines Safeguarding

Report calls for expert child protection units across country

Care Children Families Features & Opinion Headlines Mental Health Safeguarding

Opinion: EDS, Autism and the Spectre of FII

Adult Care Headlines Physical Disabilities Safeguarding

Training helps staff care for patients with learning disabilities and autism

Children Families Headlines Safeguarding

Schools Bill to help improve standards and safeguarding for children

Features & Opinion Headlines Health Safeguarding

Feature: Should healthcare professionals do more to warn their patients about the risks of air pollution?

Children Families Headlines Safeguarding

Study calls for court order ‘shake-up’ to keep families together

Parents reunited with their children via a court order following care proceedings say there is a lack of ‘humanity’ in the process, leaving them feeling they were ‘just a cog in the machine, a case rather than a person’, according to new government-funded research.