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Resources Related to the Protection of the Rights of Health and Social Care Service Users

 

Baldwin, C. 1996 Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: Problems of Definition, Diagnosis and Treatment. Health and Social Care in the Community 4 3 159-165.

 

Fisher, K. McHugh, M. and Thomson, C. 2000 The Link Between Children's Services and Child Protection, consultancy for the NSW Department of Community Services Office of Childcare, February.

https://www.academia.edu/2917330/The_Link_between_Childrens_Services_and_Child_Protection_The_Perspective_of_Directors_of_Childrens_Services

 

Hammarberg, T. 2011 Persons with intellectual and psycho-social disabilities must not be deprived of their individual rights, The Council of Europe Commissioner’s Human Rights Comment, 20 Feb.

http://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/persons-with-intellectual-and-psycho-social-disabilities-must-not-be-deprived-of-their-individual-righ-1

 

Hayward-Brown H. 2003 False and highly questionable allegations of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy, Ph.D, Charles Sturt University.

http://www.pnc.com.au/~heleneli/links.htm

 

Hayward-Brown, H. Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: Some medico-legal issues Judicial Officers’ Bulletin, Judicial Commission of NSW 2004 June.

http://www.pnc.com.au/~heleneli/links.htm

 

Howe, F. (Earl) 2003 Speech to the House of Lords Hansard, 5.2.2003 Column 312–316.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200203/ldhansrd/vo030205/text/30205-10.htm#30205-10_spnew8

 

Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission 1996 Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. ACT, Australia.

https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/bringing-them-home-report-1997

 

Law Commission 2010 Adult Social Care, 10 May, LAW COM No 326, HC 941 London: The Stationery Office

http://www.justice.gov.uk/lawcommission/publications/1460.htm

 

Mart, E. G. 1999 Problems With the Diagnosis of Factitious Disorder by Proxy in Forensic Settings. American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 17;1.

 

Morley, C.J. 1995 Practical Concerns about the Diagnosis of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, 72; 528-530.

http://www.msbp.com/CJMorley.htm

 

Morley, C. 1998 Concerns about using and interpreting covert video surveillance, BMJ, May;316: 1603 - 1605

http://www.bmj.com/content/316/7144/1603.1

 

Nott, M. 2005 Medical expert testimony: a failure to learn lessons, Lawyers Weekly, 15 Sept.

 

Pankratz, L. 2006 Persistent Problems With the Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Label J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 34:1:90-95.

http://www.jaapl.org/cgi/content/full/34/1/90

 

Pankratz, L. 2010 Persistent problems with the "separation test" in Munchausen syndrome by proxy, The Journal of Psychiatry & Law, Fall, 38;307-323.

http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/index.aspx?mainid=544&issuedate=2011-01-19&homepage=no

 

Preston-Shoot, M. 2011a On administrative evil-doing within social work policy and services: law, ethics and practice, European Journal of Social Work, 14;2;177-194

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691450903471229

 

Samuel, M. 2010 Concerns raised over wrongful detentions of service users, Community Care, 24 June.

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2010/06/24/114794/concerns-raised-over-wrongful-detentions-of-service-users.htm

 

Transparency International, 2006 Handbook for Curbing Corruption in Public Procurement, London.

http://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/publication/handbook_for_curbing_corruption_in_public_procurement

 

UN 2006 Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml

 

Wexler, R. 2006 Statement of Richard Wexler, Executive Director, National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, Alexandria, Virginia, Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the House Committee on Ways and Means, May 23.

http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=4962

 

Wrennall, L. et al. 2003. Taking the Stick Away Consultation on the Government’s Green Paper on Child Protection 1 December.

https://www.academia.edu/7735384/Wrennall_L._et_al_2003_Taking_the_Stick_Away_Consultation_on_the_Government_s_Green_Paper_on_Child_Protection_1_December

 

Wrennall, L. 2004 Miscarriages of Justice in Child Protection: a brief history and proposals for change. Paper presented to the parliamentary conference held by the All Party Group on Abuse Investigations, Attlee Suite Portcullis House 2 December.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235707346_Parliamentary_Briefing_Miscarriages_of_Justice_in_Contemporary_Child_Protection_a_brief_history_and_proposals_for_change

 

Wrennall, L. 2010 'Confronting judicial misconduct', Criminal Justice Matters, 80;1;10 – 11.

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a922872922~frm=titlelink

 

Wrennall, L. 2013 Economic Conflicts of Interest, Perverse Financial Incentives and NOMBism: Why it all goes Wrong. In Carey, M. & Green, L. ed 2013 Practical Social Work Ethics: Complex Dilemmas within Applied Social Care, London, Ashgate. 171-198.

http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=11395&edition_id=11749

 

Wrennall, L. Bache, B. Pragnell, C. et al 2015 Open Letter on Shaken Baby Syndrome and Courts: A False and Flawed Premise, Argument & Critique, Received Jan. Published Feb.
http://www.argumentcritique.com/open-letter-on-sbs.html

 

Legal Precedents

 

Rights of Older People

Essex County Council v RF & Ors (Deprivation of Liberty and damage) [2015] EWCOP 1 (07 January 2015)

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/2015/1.html

 

Rights of People with Disabilities

London Borough of Hillingdon v Neary & Anor [2011] EWHC 1377 (COP)

http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed83997

 

LB of Hillingdon v Neary [2011] EWHC 3522 (COP)

http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed95160

 

Rights of Children and Families

A (A Child) v Darlington Borough Council, [2015] EWFC 11, Case No: MB14C01592

http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed143260

 

Educational Resources

 

What happens when parents are treated unfairly by the Social Services? Sue Amphlett, who experienced such treatment, talks frankly about her group

and how parents can fight unfair decisions.

Sue Amphlett from Parents Against Injustice [PAIN], Social care, social work and the law: Track 5. Open learn at the Open University.

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care/social-care-social-work-and-the-law?track=5

 

RightsInfo 

http://rightsinfo.org/we-made-a-film-about-rightsinfo/

 

 

 

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