Social Care Law Update

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session participants should:

• Understand recent case law governing how a mental capacity assessment should be carried out
• Be able to have regard to the person’s wishes and feelings in accordance with recent court decisions
• Understand the DoLS process and how it operates in practice
• Have knowledge of how the Supreme Court decision in Cheshire West should be applied in practice
• Know when a deprivation of liberty will and will not occur in specific settings such as intensive care and domestic settings
• Understand the care and support journey set out in the Care Act
• Know the difference between a best interest decision and a Care Act decision
• Have knowledge of recent case law on how relevant are resources to care planning decisions
• Understand what the Care Act means by safeguarding
• Have knowledge of the range of legal safeguarding powers available to health and care services, and other agencies

Training Methods Used

This session can be run as a training session for groups of up to 20 participants (involving plenty of groupwork, discussion etc), or as an interactive presentation for a large audience (involving questions and answers and some pairs or groupwork). Either way, we want participants to leave the session saying “that was really enjoyable – and it was directly relevant to my working life.”