Have you been wondering what the difference between Gillick competence + Fraser guidelines is?
Gillick: child’s capacity to consent. Fraser: guidelines to decide if a child can consent to contraceptive or sexual health advice/treatment.
#IStandWithKeiraBell
More reading below
Gillick: child’s capacity to consent. Fraser: guidelines to decide if a child can consent to contraceptive or sexual health advice/treatment.
#IStandWithKeiraBell
More reading below
Here is a useful and up-to-date primer on Gillick and Fraser from the CQC: cqc.org.uk/guidance-provi…
Here is a further discussion piece regarding the Keira Bell case:
childprotectionresource.online/children-compe… via @SVPhillimore
“Any suggestion that the Bell case will somehow ‘destroy’ Gillick competence and deny 15 year old girls the right to contraception or abortion, is simply wrong.”
childprotectionresource.online/children-compe… via @SVPhillimore
“Any suggestion that the Bell case will somehow ‘destroy’ Gillick competence and deny 15 year old girls the right to contraception or abortion, is simply wrong.”
For an in-depth family law perspective on consent/capacity see this training module from Lyndsey Sambrooks-Wright, barrister, hosted by Family Law Weekly (free sample of the podcast is available):
familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed…
familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed…
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