PPD - SEMESTER 1
- Created by: ggmonkey
- Created on: 18-06-20 16:19
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- Children's Ethics
- Who can give consent?
- Unless it is an emergency we need consent before investigating, examining or treating a child.
- Doctrine of necessity
- Someone under 18 cannot refuse life saving treatment
- Someone 16 or over has presumed capacity so can consent
- Someone under 16 needs to be Gillick competent to consent
- Unless it is an emergency we need consent before investigating, examining or treating a child.
- Parental responsibility (PR)
- Someone with PR can consent to and refuse treatment of a child
- Scope is limited by best interest of child
- Sometimes court aproval is needed
- Who?
- Birth mother
- Biological father if married to mother at conception, birth or currently
- If not married, has to be on birth certificate or a written PR order
- Others include: step parents, civil partners, residence order, local authority, adoption agency or legal guardian
- Courts
- Courts can authorise / refuse treatment and override child / parents
- Gillick competant
- Child can only consent not refuse so parent can overrule child
- Child has right to confidentiality
- Consent not needed if abuse is suspected
- Who can give consent?
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