Jim Rogers is a lecturer in communications at Dublin City University. His core research interests centre on the media and cultural industries, music, and copyright. His first book, The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2013. He is the co-editor of A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property, Zed, 2017 and author of many published academic articles on the music industry.

Helps support students to learn how the Mental Capacity Act operates, what its key principles are when applied to safeguarding adults and how these two principles interact and inform one another.

Introduction
Ethics and Vulnerability: Service Users and Social Workers
Decision Making in Work with Vulnerable Adults
Mental Capacity
Best Interests
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS)
Adults at Risk
Personalisation and Partnership Working
The Assessed and Supported Year in Employment
Appendix 1: Professional Capabilities Framework