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Adult Social Care
Law Commission report
11 May 2011
This report features recommendations for a single, clear, modern statute and code of practice that would pave the way for a coherent social care system.
These recommendations include:
- putting the individual’s wellbeing at the heart of decision-making, using new statutory principles
- giving carers new legal rights to services
- placing duties on councils and the NHS to work together
- building a single, streamlined assessment and eligibility framework
- protecting service users from abuse and neglect with a new legal framework, and
- giving adult safeguarding boards a statutory footing.
Download this report from the Law Commission website
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