Rachel Hubbard's Outputs (8)

The Adult Safeguarding Practice Handbook (2024)
Book

The second edition of this best-selling book provides an essential guide to best practice in adult safeguarding. It has been updated to include recent legislative, guidance and research-based developments and relates them to useful practice examples.... Read More about The Adult Safeguarding Practice Handbook.

Experiences of parents of trans young people: A qualitative literature review (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite the perception that the experiences of parents of trans children and young people is under-researched there is a growing body of evidence gathered using qualitative methodologies from the US, Canada, the UK, Italy, Australia and Ireland, part... Read More about Experiences of parents of trans young people: A qualitative literature review.

The Best Interests Assessor Practice Handbook - Second edition (2022)
Book

The Best Interests Assessor (BIA) Practice Handbook is firmly grounded in real-life practice and remains the only textbook focusing directly on the BIA role. Offering clear and practical advice on the legal elements of the role, and the values and pr... Read More about The Best Interests Assessor Practice Handbook - Second edition.

Teaching and studying LGBTQ+ identities in the UK in 2021: an autoethnographic account (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The current landscape for LGBTQ+ people in the UK is a complex mixture of progress and acceptance, misrepresentation and abuse. Trans people particularly are experiencing greater visibility than ever before whilst seeing their existence, rights and r... Read More about Teaching and studying LGBTQ+ identities in the UK in 2021: an autoethnographic account.

The Adult Safeguarding Practice Handbook (2020)
Book

This is an essential, practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding which supports students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide ra... Read More about The Adult Safeguarding Practice Handbook.

Asking for Help: Does Adult Care Law Help or Hinder Relationship Building (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation and workshop item focused on how adult care law - principally the Care Act 2014 , Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Mental Health Act 1983(2007) - impact on service users' ability to ask for support in their lives.

The presentation l... Read More about Asking for Help: Does Adult Care Law Help or Hinder Relationship Building.

Best Interests Assessor Role: An Opportunity or a ‘Dead End’ for Adult Social Workers? (2018)
Journal Article

© 2017 British Association of Social Workers. This opinion article explores the significance of the Best Interests Assessor role in England and Wales for social workers working with adults. It considers the challenges of the role following the Suprem... Read More about Best Interests Assessor Role: An Opportunity or a ‘Dead End’ for Adult Social Workers?.

The Best Interests Assessor Practice Handbook (2018)
Book

Best Interests Assessors (BIA) are specialist practitioners with a unique professional identity. This is the first book to consider this complex role in depth, offering practical guidance and exploring its particular challenges in the context of the... Read More about The Best Interests Assessor Practice Handbook.