Disability Rights NC spent a year investigating the state’s overuse of the legal procedure, which leaves patients locked up at a high cost with few rights.

Introduction This guidance support trusts and community providers to enable front line staff to fulfil their legal requirements around the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005; specifically when supporting ...

The Allen Hospital Child Protection Center is undergoing a $1. ... that they aren’t alone in this process,” Kracke said. “Because it’s really something that can feel isolating for a lot ...

Social Development Child Protection acting chief director, Neliswa Cekiso, Justice Department’s Charmain Badenhorst, and the Centre for Child Law’s Stanley Malematja discussed this with eNCA.

Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn be added to the Child Protection Register. Missing girl Joshlin Smith's mother Kelly Smith, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn have been handed life ...

Her family came to the attention of New South Wales' child protection system when Tara, whose name is changed for this story for legal reasons, discovered she was 27 weeks pregnant with her fourth ...

Mangaluru: At a time when the district child protection unit (DCPU) was desperately looking for an Odiya-speaking person to assist in translation relating to a Pocso case recently, a first-year ...

hence why it is often referred to as safeguarding or child protection. However, what this approach misses is that all parents were once children themselves. In many situations, they have had ...

What's going to be different about this inquiry? It's the question those in the child protection system are understandably asking. This week, the Crisafulli government in Queensland ordered a ...

In healthcare, the intersection with child protection systems presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities to ...

During National Child Protection Week, South Africa faces a devastating crisis with children going missing every five hours. This article explores the statistics, the challenges faced by authorities, ...

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is set to agree plans to spend £2.08 million of government funding to overhaul local family support and child protection ... a process that brings wider ...