In England self-neglect has historically been excluded from statutory guidance on adult safeguarding, which focused exclusively on third party involvement in abuse and neglect (DH, 2000). The Care Act 2014 does not disturb that position but increasingly Local Safeguarding Adults Boards (LSABs) are nonetheless developing policies and procedures for self-neglect, drawing on an emerging evidence-b...

The development of a Hospital Auxiliary Committee is an example of co-operation between voluntary and statutory bodies within the framework of the National Health Service?the statutory body being the hospital Board of Management and its officials, and the voluntary body being the Auxiliary Committee composed of interested individuals from the community served by the hospital. The people of this...

This book provides an introduction to non-directive play therapy, which is an effective and nonintrusive approach to working therapeutically with troubled children and young people. It is intended for all those who, through their professional role, may be asked to work directly with emotionally damaged children, whether in statutory child care agencies, or in other mental health or voluntary an...

This work describes our experience in a MDA based project for the integration of developments in heterogeneous systems carried out in IZFE (The Statutory Society for Information Technology, pertaining to the Statutory Department of Gipuzkoa-Spain). Starting from J2EE source code examples, we achieved an UML metamodel and a cartridge for a proprietary tool name BOA, that allows to generate autom...

For years, policy makers have debated how to deal with customary tenure —sometimes known as ―informal,‖ ―indigenous,‖ or ―traditional law.‖ This concern arises because dual (or multiple) legal systems co-exist in many countries: statutory law alongside informal, customary practices, religious law, etc. Educated urban elites tend to use the statutory system while rural citizens, the less educate...

Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) in Oregon initiated the process of achieving statutory and regulatory recognition several years ago. Throughout this process, specific phases of activity and events helped CNSs to identify what was required to achieve this goal. The resulting lessons learned are shared in this report. Statutory recognition of CNSs in Oregon occurred in 1999, and the administrat...

The 1983 Oregon legislature responded to public pressure to narrow the application of the insanity defense by eliminating personality disordered individuals from consideration for an insanity verdict. This article examined the effects of the statutory change, and found no significant change in the frequency of insanity acquittals of personality disordered subjects between the three pre-reform y...

Health surveillance is required by UK regulations in certain circumstances, and is usually provided through an occupational health organization. Although there are studies assessing the provision of health surveillance across the country, there are no published studies addressing the practical application of legislation, guidelines and medical research to respiratory health surveillance program...