Best Interests Assessor Training Legal Refresher

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Time: 9.00am - 4.30pm
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

Programme of the training day:

9.15am Reflective workshop for newly qualified BIAs • Informal discussion group for previous Kingston 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

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.

For further information about this event:

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