Training Courses

Community Deprivation of Liberty

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Target Group:

This course is specifically aimed at Social Work staff across all levels, to include Managers, Senior Social Workers and those in Supervisory roles as well as Social Worker’s and Social Work Assistants from Locality Teams, Review Team, MH Team, LD Team, Wellbeing and Access Hub, Hospital team, PDU, Safeguaridng and SW Students.

Course Aims:

This course has been commissioned to increase the knowledge and skills across the department to recognise community deprivation of liberty.

Intended Impact:

By the end of the day participants will have learned:

• The key legal principles governing deprivation of liberty in the community setting
• To identify and collate the necessary evidence for making applications to the Court of Protection to authorise deprivations of liberty in the community setting

The day will include the following key topics:

Introduction and overview of the day
Deprivation of liberty after Cheshire West
The acid test and its application in community settings
Re X: the case, the process, and the future
Capacity: assessing and collating evidence
Best interests: assessing and collating evidence
Deprivation of liberty: assessing and collating evidence
Case law: examples of community DoL cases
The Rule 1.2 Representative: identifying and practical issues
The Court of Protection forms
Case studies: applying learning to practice
Practical issues with DoL applications to the Court
Further discussion and questions, evaluations and close

Isle of Wight Council employees should book via the Learning Hub. External delegates can book by completing the online application form

Course Trainer:
Hanna Gottschling

Trainer Biography:

Hanna first started working in adult mental health services in 1999, and went on to gain her Masters in Adult Mental Health. She has been the MCA/DoLS lead for a local authority in London for a number of years and also continues to practice as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) and as a Best Interests Assessor (BIA) to ensure her role as a trainer remains credible and appropriate to the subject matter she is delivering. Hanna has worked in all areas of adult social care including learning disability transitions, older people, physical health and mental health.

Date: 04 June 2025    Time: 9:30am - 4:00pm

Venue:
Microsoft Teams, Online

Cost:

External: (Schools, Non-Subscribing Early Years Providers, Partner Agencies, Personal Assistants, Additional Places for Short Breaks Providers and Social Care Agencies) £100
30% Reduction of External Rate: (Registered Charities, Contracted ASC Providers and Organisations Delivering Services on our Behalf) £70
Subscribing Early Years Providers and Childminders, Isle of Wight Council Staff and IWC Foster Carers: Fully funded