Quick guides: 3 types of legal status

The second of my single page ‘quick guides’ looks at the 3 types of legal status, when to intervene or to stand back and how to make sense of people’s differing levels of capacity.

Unashamedly stealing other peoples’ ideas

I plan to create relatively brief ‘quick guide’ summaries of mental health and social care principles that can either be used for quick online reference or posted in staff rooms and offices

Abu Qatada – the law at work

Not so long ago I made myself a little unpopular by posting a blog

The Care Guy podcast

I’ve started a proper podcast. Initially I’ll be oosting audio versions of existing episodes of ‘The Guide’. Then once I’ve caught up I’ll keep the podcast in line with weekly The Guide episodes but add other stuff along the way too. You can hear (and subscribe to) my podcast here All feedback would be appreciated.

Course design 13: Take the time to tell the tale

So if you’re a lawyer, a trainer or a social worker with the responsibility for delivering health and social care law training to care workers remember the rule of ‘T’: Take the time to tell the tale

Human rights are bigger than Abu Qatada

The law must be bigger than Abu Qatada. Once we ignore human rights for him we open the door for governments to ignore human rights for us all.

Anders Breivik is sane

Anders Breivik (the Oslo bomber) has been declared sane and therefore, presumably will be declared ‘fit to plead’ shortly.

The tories are attacking human rights again

Once again the home secretary is attacking article 8 of the ECHR. She claims to do so because of concerns about immigration and deportation but that’s not the real issue. That particular political horse has already bolted. Article 8 is also about the right to privacy and represents a huge hurdle for the condem government’s [...]

Another blog award nomination

Project Prevention is the American eugenicist organisation that wants to bribe vulnerable people to accept sterilisation. In UK and USA they target drug addicts. In Haiti they want to sterilise people because they’re ‘too poor’ to have children and in Africa they’re targetting women who are HIV+.

Tweeting for justice

We are all expendable ‘fodder’ in the eyes of the ConDems. Their main tactic is to ‘divide and conquer’.