The Care Act 2014

Exploring exactly how the provisions and principles of the Act are implemented in practice, The Care Act 2014 brings together the work of experts across the fields of social work, social policy and care, law, mental health, mental capacity and safeguarding. Case studies developed through the chapters will help you to understand how the Act relates to social work practice, alongside evidence from research, case law and service user and carer testimonies. Mapped closely to both the social work curriculum, and the post-qualifying standards, the book will support social work students in developing good practice through learning, and will further critical reflection of this crucial piece of legislation for practitioners pursuing their continuing professional development.

Foreword - Colin Whittington
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Care Act 2014 - Outcomes in Context - Suzy Braye & Michael Preston-Shoot
Chapter 2: Overview of the Care Act 2014 - Tim Spencer Lane
Chapter 3: Assessing need and providing care and support - John Crossland
Chapter 4: The Care Act: the service user's experience - Peter Beresford & Colin Slasberg
Chapter 5: Carers and the Care Act: promise and potential - Jill Manthorpe, Jo Moriarty, Nic Brimblecombe, Martin Knapp, Tom Snell & José Luis Fernandéz
Chapter 6: Caring: a personal perspective - Imogen Taylor
Chapter 7: Adult safeguarding - Suzy Braye & Michael Preston-Shoot
Chapter 8: The Mental Capacity Act and the Care Act: learning lessons for the future? - Laura Pritchard-Jones
Chapter 9: Navigating practice at the interface between mental health and social care law - Simon Abbott
Chapter 10: Hidden in plain sight: Social work, acquired brain injury and missed opportunities for change - Mark Holloway
Chapter 11: The interface between the Care Act and asylum law: exclusions and innovations - Forough Ramezankhah & Alison Brammer
Chapter 12: Transitions to adult social care - Cath Holmström
Chapter 13: Connecting people's lives with strategic planning, commissioning and market shaping - Margaret Flynn & Vic Citarella
Chapter 14: Social Work and the Care Act 2014 - Jill Manthorpe