Risky business?
Stuart Marchant
This scoping paper sets important issues relating to positive risk-taking in adult social care in a legal context.
This scoping paper:
- sets important issues relating to positive risk-taking in adult social care in a legal context;
- considers how current care provision impacts on the human rights of service users; and
- analyses the extent to which the present regulatory and commissioning frameworks stifle or encourage risk-taking in adult social care.
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