AMHP Legal Update 19 September 2023

Aims

The main aim is to give AMHPs an opportunity to update their legal knowledge and skills regarding work under the Mental Health Act 1983. This update has a focus on recent policy issues as well as case law developments.  At the end of the course AMHPs should have a better understanding of:

• possible changes to the Mental Health Act;

• plans to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998;

• the AMHP Workforce Study 2022;

• the Court of Appeal decision on the Worcestershire case and s117 of the MHA;