Purpose – The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 places a duty on Councils to investigate the circumstances of adults who, because of a disability, health condition or illness are unable to safeguard themselves from harm. Public partner agencies, including the NHS have a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the dilemma at the heart of nursing care – the striving for empowerment of people in nurses’ care with the responsibility to protect vulnerable adults from harm. In doing so, it argues that in difficult and borderline cases, capacity...