Involving People Group Video
Involving people who use services and their carers are crucial to our work.
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Mental Welfare Commission Report 'Powers of Attorney and their safeguards'
Mr and Mrs D, a Scottish couple who have learning disabilities, faced years of mistreatment because their local authority failed to act to protect them.
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Launch of serious incident review procedures
On 27 January the Care Inspectorate wrote to all chief social workers advising them that responsibility for analysing serious incident reviews had transferred from Scottish Government to the Inspectorate and that there was new guidance in place.
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Mental Welfare Commission Report 'Powers of Attorney and their safeguards'
Mr and Mrs D, a Scottish couple who have learning disabilities, faced years of mistreatment because their local authority failed to act to protect them.
The Mental Welfare Commission's new report calls for a local authority to apologise for failing to intervene to protect Mr and Mrs D, despite evidence of financial and emotional abuse at the hands of a family member.
The council held many documented concerns about the family member, who had power of attorney for the couple’s finances and welfare.
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Launch of serious incident review procedures
On 27 January the Care Inspectorate wrote to all chief social workers advising them that responsibility for analysing serious incident reviews had transferred from Scottish Government to the Inspectorate and that there was new guidance in place.
This guidance places a responsibility on a local authority to carry out a review when an offender subject to statutory supervision (excluding a registered sex offender) becomes involved in a serious incident. Local authorities are asked to submit these reviews to the Care Inspectorate which will provide comment and which will aggregate the findings and lessons learned.
Separate guidance applies when registered sex offenders become involved in serious incidents (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/01/12094716/1).
Responsibility for analysing reviews of such incidents does not lie with the Care Inspectorate but with multi-agency public protection strategic oversight groups.
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