Age Assessment Training 22 June 2022

Aims

This course is designed for social workers, team managers and local authority solicitors to enable participants to feel confident that they are acting within the law when conducting age assessments within their area and to instil in them the confidence to be able to defend those assessments in court if necessary.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Distinguish between the different types of assessment e.g., initial assessment, full assessment and Merton assessment;

• Identify a public law challenge and distinguish it from a factual challenge and learn how to defend against each;