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The BIA Practice Handbook remains the only textbook that focuses directly on the BIA role within the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. It is considered to be the definitive introduction to Best Interests Assessor practice, and is acknowledged to be a valuable resource for both students and practitioners as it contains detailed knowledge and support for ethical decision making in practice. The latest edition has been updated to take into account recent legislative changes, including the Mental Capacity Amendment Act 2019, recent case law, plus the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on BIA practice.
The BIA Practice Handbook remains the only textbook that focuses directly on the BIA role within the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. It is considered to be the definitive introduction to Best Interests Assessor practice, and is acknowledged to be a valuable resource for both students and practitioners as it contains detailed knowledge and support for ethical decision making in practice. The latest edition has been updated to take into account recent legislative changes, including the Mental Capacity Amendment Act 2019, recent case law, plus the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on BIA practice.
This chapter explores the role of the BIA to act ethically, the challenges of making decisions as a BIA when there are no clear ‘right’ answers, professional responsibilities towards professional practice and ethical models to assist with making difficult and complex decisions.
This chapter enables BIAs to explore the influences and context for their decisions, and offers tools and models to aid reflection and critical thinking with examples of BIA decision making. It also offers theoretical and research contexts for commonly encountered conditions in BIA practice, such as dementia, learning disabilities, autism and acquired brain injury, and explores key challenges such as executive capacity.
This introductory chapter sets out the structure of the book and introduces some of the key ideas and themes, as well as setting out the main legal framework, case law and developments since the implementation of DoLS, including planned reform of human rights law in the UK.
This chapter is structured around the six DoLS assessments and the other decisions that BIAs make during their assessment. It includes updated case law, scenarios and examples to help readers explore these decisions as well as common challenges and dilemmas.
This chapter explores the values and challenges of the BIA as a multi-professional identity, as well as giving focus to the particular and complementary contributions made by social work, nursing and occupational therapy to the role. The chapter explores reasons why psychologists appear less engaged in the role than other professions, the differences experienced by BIAs practising in Wales, and the contribution of other professional expertise, particularly the potential contribution of speech and language therapists to BIA skills and knowledge.
This chapter explores the practical skills and knowledge required for working with the person, their family, friends and carers as well as other roles relevant to the DoLS. These include advocacy and representative roles, powers of attorney given by the person, advance decisions or powers given by the Court of Protection as well as work alongside safeguarding processes. It considers consultation requirements with the mental health assessor as well as managing authorities, supervisory bodies and professionals involved in ongoing decision making with the person.
This chapter introduces and contextualises the international arms trade. It explores the links between the activities of state and corporate elites through the lens of warrior-protector and bourgeois-rational models of masculinity. The legitimate arms trade is defined and monitored, over and against illegitimate trading as a criminal activity, through ‘nested’ hierarchies of male-dominated elites. Visual analysis shows how the overtly gendered masculinity of moralised patriarchy interacts with covertly gendered humanness. In that way money-making in the national/international arms trade is sanitised as patriotic. Taking the UK as a particular state-agent, the chapter shows how legitimating strategies invisibilise policy contradictions and human rights-violations.
This chapter takes readers to the very pinnacle of global power where nation-states, military establishments and commercial interests come together at international arms fairs. At those venues arms traders and weapons-manufacturers address their legitimacy-deficit. Their strategies are stabilised by reinscribing the heterosexual certainties of the gender-order hierarchy of masculinity over femininity. Gender-sensitive ethnography, informed by performativity, explicates this in detail, with particular attention to the role of women. In turn weapons-company promotional videos do this similarly with the race-class order to stabilise themselves politically. This conjuncture is dominated by American ‘defence’ spending and thus by ‘western-liberal’ norms. Legitimation then works against any idea of hypocrisy and subterfuge.
