Aims: This one-day Level 3 Safeguarding Adults training course offers delegates the opportunity to explore the legal framework, which underpins safeguarding adults work, and to explore the key challenges that may arise in practice. It will guide the delegates through the safeguarding adults process and focus on making safeguarding personal. It is for all staff who may be involved in safeguarding adult work which could include social workers, community care officers, social care workers, social care managers, GP’s, practice nurses, heads of quality, chief nurses, designated nurses for safeguarding adults, occupational therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists. Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate and understanding of the requirements of the Care Act 2014 in relation to adult safeguarding
• Describe personalised responses to adults at risk of harm that reflect the principles of safeguarding
• Understand their roles and responsibilities
• Understand the roles and responsibilities of partner agencies
• Consider the issues surrounding consent, capacity, confidentiality and information sharing
• Describe the key steps and timescales of the adult safeguarding pathway in line with policy and procedures
• Understand what informs a decision to undertake an enquiry.
• Increased ‘legal literacy’ in relation to protecting adults from abuse and neglect

 Programme: The day will include the following key topics:

• News update, recent developments, case law, reports in relation to safeguarding adults

• Safeguarding Adults legislation, professional duties under The Care 2014 and relevant multi-agency safeguarding adults' policies and procedures
• Application of the principles of making safeguarding personal
• Identify factors that contribute towards a decision to undertake a S42 Enquiry
• Identify who can carry out an enquiry
• Identify the objectives of a S42 Enquiry
• Work with an adult/in their best interests to develop an action plan
• Identify a need for independent advocacy
• Be able to develop a safeguarding plan
• Practice issues for staff
• Links between safeguarding and the Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Case studies - a number of cases studies to apply learning in practice

The course will be delivered by Dawn Revell Dawn is a qualified Social Worker having obtained her professional status over 18 years ago. She continues to practice as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) under the Mental Health Act 1983.She is a joint trained investigator for safeguarding adults and presently has responsibility for managing and advising on complex safeguarding adult cases. Dawn presently manages a generic, county wide social services emergency duty team. She has worked as an associate trainer for over 4 years and has designed, facilitated and delivered training on risk assessment, mental health, mental capacity and safeguarding adults. Includes all course materials, certificate and refreshments. Places are limited so early booking is recommended. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to email assistant@edgetraining.org.uk  or call 07341 277487.

Aims: This course aims to update staff working with children, young people and those in transition with the latest case law and developments in relation to deprivation of liberty. The course will consider these developments and the impact on practice. It examines the Supreme Court ruling on deprivation of liberty and considers practical issues in its application for children and young people. Learning Outcomes: ·    Understand the ‘presumption of capacity’ from age 16; the overlap with parental responsibility until the age of 18 and how this differs to consent provided for children under 16  ·    Understand the supreme court ruling and it’s application to those aged under 18 ·    Identify when a deprivation of liberty may be occurring and how to make it lawful:  Programme: The day will include the following key topics: ·    Deprivation of Liberty – overview – European Court onwards ·    Supreme Court ruling – overview and its application to children 
and young people ·    Law Society guidance following the Supreme Court ruling – 
children’s chapter ·    Recent case law applying the Supreme Court ruling to those under 
18 ·    New threshold for deprivation of liberty set by the Supreme Court ·    ‘Continuous supervision and control’ – guidance and examples 
from case law ·    ‘Not free to leave’ – guidance and examples from case law ·    Case law review involving children since the Supreme Court ruling ·    Residential schools, non-secure children’s homes and foster 
placements ·    Deprivation of liberty - finding of fact and how to make it lawful ·    18+ in / not in a care home or hospital ·    16-17 and Under 16 in any placement ·   Parental consent (scope of parental responsibility) its authority and limitations in relation to deprivation of liberty – case law review including the impact of the Court of Appeal decision in November 2017 for 16 and 17 year olds ·    DoLS procedure overview ·    Court of Protection applications overview ·    Interaction with other legislation – Children Act, Mental Health Act ·    Practice issues for social care staff and managers. ·    Case studies - a number of cases studies to apply learning in 
practice 
 The course will be delivered by Dawn Revell Dawn is a qualified Social Worker having obtained her professional status over 18 years ago. She continues to practice as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) under the Mental Health Act 1983.She is a joint trained investigator for safeguarding adults and presently has responsibility for managing and advising on complex safeguarding adult cases. Dawn presently manages a generic, county wide social services emergency duty team. She has worked as an associate trainer for over 4 years and has designed, facilitated and delivered training on risk assessment, mental health, mental capacity and safeguarding adults. Includes all course materials, certificate and refreshments. Places are limited so early booking is recommended. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to email assistant@edgetraining.org.uk  or call 07341 277487.

Aims This course aims to enable health and social care staff to consider the impact of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 on their work and its relationship to the use and application of the Mental Health Act 1983. Learning outcomes 

• Understand the key rules and procedures of the Mental Capacity Act and how this relates to its interaction with the Mental Health Act
• Explain how their working practices will be affected by using the Mental Capacity Act
• Illustrate the skills needed to assess which Act is applicable for particular situations
• Demonstrate practical application of the interaction between the two Acts

Programme

• Mental Capacity Act commentary – Court of Appeal, CQC, Ombudsman
• MCA and MHA 1983 comparison
• MCA and MHA statistics – detention and supervision in England
• Using the MCA in mental health services – community, admission, hospital and discharge
• Admission to hospital – ECHR case law and AM & SLaM case
• Assessment of capacity – first steps and overview
• Understand – what information for admission to hospital
• Use or weigh – significance in mental health and case law
• Best Interests – overview and the checklist
• Admission to mental health wards – which Act and why? Case law guidance
• Code of Practice guidance – objecting to treatment or admission (eligibility for DoLS)
• Conveyance - moving people?
• Deprivation of Liberty – European view onwards
• Why or when to use DoLS in mental health services – hospital and community
• Case law – CTO and Conditional Discharge and DoLS
• Case law summary sheet on MHA and MCA cases

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to email assistant@edgetraining.org.uk  or call 07341 277487.