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Best Interests Assessors Training, Legal Refresher

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Time: 9.00am - 4.15pm
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

Best Interests Assessors Training, Legal Refresher

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

Booking is essential to attend this event.

For further information about this event:

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

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