Half-day session run by Cardiff Council

There are two half-day sessions to choose from:

Morning – 9.30am to 12.30pm

Afternoon – 1.30pm to 4.30pm

(Participants should aim to arrive up to 15 minutes before the session in order to register and avail themselves of refreshments).

Target group: Care assistants/support workers, supervisors and managers working in social care.

The aim of this workshop based session is to set out the requirements of the deprivation of Liberty safeguards in adult social care.

The workshop will use case studies from social care to illustrate how the safeguards would apply in practice.

Objectives

At the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Outline the background to the safeguards and why they are necessary in adult social care.
• Recall their duty to consult the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards code of practice
• List the key roles in the deprivation of liberty safeguards process
• Identify service users who are at risk of being deprived of their liberty
• Explain the process of making an application for a standard authorisation
• Demonstrate when an application for an urgent authorisation must be made
• Set out the six requirements that need to be met for a deprivation of liberty to be authorised under the safeguards
• Describe the action that can be taken should a service user subject to the safeguards leave the premises without permission
• Highlight the limits of a deprivation of liberty safeguard
• Describe when a request for a review of an authorisation should be made

State the conditions for ending a deprivation of liberty safeguard authorisation.

Certificates will only be issued to participants who attend the full session.