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Good Afternoon
I’m writing to let you know about the forthcoming Applying the Care Act – making legally literate decisions about personal budgets masterclass which I will be facilitating on Friday 9th March 2018 in London. The aim of this one day masterclass is for participants to improve their ability to make decisions about what is a sufficient budget to meet needs – that represents good outcomes for the individual and value for money, by understanding how local authorities are sometimes applying the Care Act 2014 in ways that can be considered as unsatisfactory, and may be unlawful.
With councils under pressure to drive down the cost of care packages, social workers can be placed in circumstances where application of the legal rules and professional judgement is compromised – as evidenced in recent High Court and Court of Appeal decisions and findings of maladministration by the Ombudsman. This masterclass will enable participants to consider what can be learned from these cases, including both successful and unsuccessful challenges to reductions to an individual’s care package, and to improve their ability to apply the Care Act and the statutory guidance in a legally literate way – by utilising the approach set out in The Social Worker’s Guide to the Care Act 2014.
Delegates will receive a copy of my book The Social Worker’s Guide to the Care Act 2014
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the significance of decisions made in Davey v Oxfordshire and JF v Merton, in relation to reducing the cost of care packages
- Consider recent Ombudsman findings on disputes about the amount of the personal budget (including those where the complaint was not upheld).
- Explore the implications of the above for how social workers apply the Care Act to assessment, eligibility, care and support planning and reviews.
- Review the mandate provided for professional judgement within the Care Act, the Regulations and the Care and Support Statutory Guidance.
- Better understand the circumstances where a local authority can reduce/increase the cost of an individual’s care package and the how this can be achieved. Evaluate the extent to which local ‘funding panels’ apply the statutory guidance.
- Reflect on what needs to be done to prevent disputes developing into complaints to the Ombudsman or judicial reviews
- Reflect on complex and challenging cases in a multiagency forum
How to register:
To secure your place, please register using one of the following options:
1. Book your place online
2. Download the conference brochure and booking form
I hope to see you there.
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Conferences
Good Afternoon,
The Safeguarding Adults Summit 2019: Improving Adult Safeguarding Practice Decision Making, User Involvement & Outcomes is taking place on Monday 10th June 2019 at the De Vere West One Conference Centre, London. The conference, chaired by Fran Pearson – Chair, National Network for Chairs of Adult Safeguarding Boards & Independent Chair, Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board, London Borough of Newham/Luton, aims to bring together adult safeguarding leads to understand current issues and the national context, and to debate and discuss key issues and areas you are facing in practice in moving forward with ‘making safeguarding personal’ and a developing a strengths based approach to adult safeguarding.
The day includes an opening address by Kenny Gibson – Head of Adult Safeguarding, NHS England. Other speakers on the day include Moira Tombs – Associate, Encompassing Health, Prof Samantha Baron, Head of Social Work, Manchester Metropolitan University & Co Author, Strengths-based approach practice framework, Department of Health and Social Care and Ruth Ingram – Co-Author, Adult Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse: A Guide to Support Practitioners and Manager & Safeguarding Adults Consultant
For the full programme and speaker line up visit the website: www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/adult-safeguarding-summit
What you will learn by attending…
• Network with colleagues who are working to improve adult safeguarding practice
• Understand the national context of your safeguarding practice
• Move towards full implementation of Making Safeguarding Personal
• Reflect on how you can develop and embed a strengths based approach to adult safeguarding
• Ensure the learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs) is used to identify systemic risk issues and improve practice
• Learn from others to enable a user focused approach to adult safeguarding, including hearing from service users
• Monitor and improve service user led outcomes for safeguarding
• Learn from a different approach to safeguarding young adults
• Understand the legal context including implications of recent developments such as the move from DoLS to Liberty Protection Safeguards
• Improve your skills in decision making in adult safeguarding: understanding mental capacity
• Develop your skills in safeguarding investigation, undertaking a safeguarding enquiry and report writing
• Improve practice in multi-agency information sharing including GDPR in safeguarding
• Self assess and reflect on your own practice
• Gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence
100% of delegates who attended our last conference on Adult Safeguarding would recommend the conference to a colleague
How to register:
To secure your place, please register using one of the following options:
1. Book your place online
2. Email jayne@hc-uk.org.uk
3. Download the conference brochure and booking form
GROUP DISCOUNTS: A discount of 15% will be applied to fees for any extra delegates. For bookings of 5 + delegates, email judi@hc-uk.org.uk as greater discounts are available