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Legal Literacy: Safeguarding Adults Training
This training is suitable for all staff and volunteers working with adults in North Lincolnshire.
Delivered by Edge Training and Consultancy, this course aims to explore the legal rules that underpin our actions in safeguarding adults work, and to support practitioners and organisations to deliver the intentions and requirements of the Care Act 2014, to keep people safe from abuse and neglect.
By the end of the course participants will have:- Improved legal literacy knowledge in relation to safeguarding adults
- Understood the central role of the Mental Capacity Act in safeguarding adults
- Considered case law examples
- Applied learning to practice through case studies.
- Considered the role and authority of the Court of Protection
Key topics covered
- The starting point with adults – consent
- Mental Capacity Act overview
- Care Act - duties and powers
- Case studies - learning into practice
- Decision specific case law
- Best interests - challenges, application, power, safeguarding
- Sexual relations and contact with others - case law.
- Self – neglect
- Court of Protection - scope and powers
- Other legislation: Criminal Courts and Justice Act 2015
- The Modern Slavery Act
- Inherent Jurisdiction - when all else fails - application and examples
Location
Church Square House, DN15 6NL