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Good practice

Developing guidance

Each year we produce a number of good practice guides to help practitioners to deliver care and treatment that is in line with the principles of the law and best practice. Our guidance also helps service users and carers to understand what service providers should be taking into account when delivering care.

Visits to individuals, calls to our advice and information service and discussions with stakeholder groups all help us to identify those areas of practice where people are finding it difficult to understand how to work within the law and the principles. We use this information to decide which guides to produce. We then invite experienced representatives from all relevant stakeholder groups to a discussion group. These discussions help us to identify the key issues and to share ideas and examples about how these can be addressed in practice. This information adds to our own knowledge and experience and is used to develop a guidance document.

Guidance for 2008-09

In 2008-09 we will be producing three guidance documents that will focus on:

  • working with advocacy services
  • when to use social circumstances reports
  • using mental health and incapacity legislation to protect people from deprivation of liberty

To read and download existing good practice visit our publications section.