Best Interests Assessors Training, Legal Refresher

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Time: 8.00am - 3.15pm
Venue: Business School, Room: 3036, Kingston Hill campus, Kingston Hill, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7LB
Price: £150
Speaker(s): Simon Abbott, Maria Brent and Tim Spencer-Lane

Please Note - Best Interest Assessors who completed their training at Kingston University and St George's, University of London receive one free session after qualifying as a BIA.

Conditions apply, contact HSCE-events@sgul.kingston.ac.uk for more information.

Programme of the training day:

9.00am  Reflective workshop for newly qualified BIAs

• Informal discussion group for previous Kingston University BIA students
• Critical reflection on practice experience

11.00am Legal Update (1): deprivation of liberty

• Cheshire West - where are we now?
• Deprivation of liberty in Intensive care settings
• Coroners' duties
• Private deprivations of liberty, and community DOLS
• Children and young people, and parental consent
• PJ and MM - the MHA interface
• Court of Protection update

1.00pm  Lunch

2.00pm    Legal Update (2): best interests

• The importance of wishes and feelings
• What happens when past and present wishes and feelings clash, or are uncertain?
• Best interests v public law decisions (case study)

3.00pm  Break

3.15pm  Next steps and law reform

• The Law Commission's recommendations for reforming DoLS
• The Government response
• Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry
• Independent review of the MHA

4.00pm  Final thoughts, questions and summary

4.15pm  Closure of the training day

For further information about this event:

Contact: Anastasiya Stravolemova
Tel: 0208 725 4735
Email: HSCE-events@sgul.kingston.ac.uk