Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A 2020 report by the National Appropriate Adult Network (NAAN) found that police failed to provide an appropriate adult to hundreds of thousands of suspects with mental illness, autism or learning disabilities in 2019. NAAN's chief executive said this failure risked making evidence unreliable and leading to prosecutions being abandoned. [10]
The second was a Joint Assurance Review on the acquisition of biometric data from vulnerable persons in police custody requiring the support of an Appropriate Adult. The SBC partnered with the Scottish Police Authority on this report.
In the United States, a mandated reporter is a person who is required by law to report to Child Protective Services (CPS) or Adult Protective Services if they know or suspect a child or vulnerable adult has been or is at risk of being abused or neglected or they may be subject to civil and criminal penalties for failing to report.
All information available to the court when a young person is sent to custody, such as Criminal Justice Social work reports and other reports by healthcare services and other agencies, should be ...
The report made over 100 recommendations on policing, mental health provision, and post-death investigations and inquests including that such deaths should be investigated "with the same haste and mindset as homicides" [7] and that families bereaved by a death in custody should receive non means-tested public funding for legal representation ...
Vulnerable adults sometimes have guardians - these are individuals with a legal right to make decisions on their behalf, such as those related to medical care and housing. [13] Guardians may be family or friends, [ 13 ] or they may be professionals who make decisions on behalf of many vulnerable people in exchange for their money.
A jury at Chester Crown Court was shown body worn footage of Jordan Masterson, 28, arriving at the home of the woman, referred to in court as female G, in the early hours of December 28 2021 after ...
While her mother preferred to rely on police to help find her daughter, Frank – who divorced Emmarae’s mother in 2014 and has full custody of his daughter – has been more pro-active ...