Participants will develop an understanding of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), including the key principles of capacity assessment, best-interest decision making, consent, restrictive practices, and safeguarding individual rights.
The training aims to equip front line practitioners and managers with the knowledge and confidence to apply MCA and DoLS legislation appropriately within their day-to-day roles, ensuring lawful, person-centred practice and promoting the independence, dignity, and rights of adults they support.
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (Afternoon Session)
- Understand the purpose and legal framework of DoLS.
- Identify when care and support arrangements may amount to a deprivation of liberty in various settings – e.g. Care Home, Supported Living, Shared Lives, peoples’ own homes, people living with relatives
- Apply the recent decision from the Supreme Court in the AGNI Case to the above and related situation
- Recognise restrictive practices and consider less restrictive alternatives.
Understand their role in promoting and protecting the rights of adults who may lack capacity.
This training is designed for all frontline practitioners and managers working within community-based services who support adults with care and support needs, as well as their carers.