TRAINING UPDATE:

Due to the present situation concerning the coronavirus, ESAB have cancelled all courses up until September. Delegates may continue to book onto courses from September onwards, thank you for your patience at this time.

This course will examine the perceived tension in adult safeguarding between the protective element – and people’s rights to control their own lives and choices.

By the end of the training participants will have covered:

• Care Act duties to protect from abuse and neglect
• Care Act duties to promote autonomy, choice, control
• Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights: the right to respect for private life and when it can legitimately be interfered with by the State (of which local authorities are one manifestation)
• Unwise decision-making by people with mental capacity, involving risk
• Best interests decisions, involving people lacking mental capacity, containing  risk
• Concept of the vulnerable adult, with capacity, but subject to undue influence, exploitation etc – and the relevance to safeguarding of other law (including the inherent jurisdiction, the law of equity, financial criminal offences, sexual offences)

Cost: £55
Duration: 3 hours