Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Refresher 24/25

Target group:

This course is targeted to adult social care staff and those in residential care, nursing care, home care and supported living settings, personal assistants and other frontline practitioners who have regular contact with service users/patients and their families or carers in the London Borough of Sutton. 

Staff Groups B, C, D, and E as per the Bournemouth University National Mental Capacity Act Competency Framework. 
Level 3 staff and above (ref: NHS Intercollegiate document 2018  - Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies For Healthcare Staff): Registered health care staff working with adults who engage in assessing, planning, intervening and evaluating the needs of adults where there are safeguarding concerns (as appropriate to role); and other named and designated professionals with specialist roles.
Please book DoLS awareness if you have not undertaken this training previously, the course is not suitable for staff with limited experience of the MCA or DoLS.

Aims

The aim of this course is to:

• Update and refresh participants’ knowledge of DoLS and provide updates on case law to ensure that practice is legally compliant.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the course participants will have:

• An improved understanding of a range of judgements that have been made by the Court of Protection in relation to DoLS, in particular any recent case law which informs practice
• An improved understanding on how the Supreme Court rulings of March 2014 in the “Cheshire West” and “MIG and MEG” cases have changed our understanding of what constitutes a “deprivation of liberty”
• An increased confidence on how to complete the relevant paperwork to make an application to the local authority for authorisation to deprive a person of their liberty (applicable to residents in care homes and patients in hospital settings)
• An increased confidence on how to complete the relevant paperwork to make an application directly to the Court of Protection for authorisation to deprive a person of their liberty (applicable to people who live in supported living, Shared Lives, sheltered housing, and their own homes)
• An improved knowledge of what constitutes a community DoLS.

Special Instructions:

This is a refresher course not suitable for staff with limited experience of the MCA or DoLS