1. Moving & Handling: legislation and regulation, where are now?
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Moving & Handling: legislation and regulation, where are now?
Michael Mandelstam 2016
Michael Mandelstam 2016

2. Overview
1. Care Act 2014
2. Children Act 1989, Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, Children and Families Act 2014
3. National Health Service Act 2006
4. Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996: disabled facilities grants (home adaptations)
5. Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, etc.
6. Mental Capacity Act 2005
7. Human Rights Act 1998
8. Equality Act 2010
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3. A few pointers, reminders and questions
Meeting people’s needs, first and foremost?
Blanket rules and spoon feeding?
Equipment and adaptations, boon?
Eliminating risk?
Evidencing risk assessments?
Who is carrying out risk assessments, to what standard, and for whom?
What about mental capacity and risk – and safeguarding?
Whatever happened to rehabilitation?
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