Isle of Wight Council

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:
Neil Allen

Trainer Biography:

Neil provides specialist advice and representation, as well as expert legal training to frontline health and social care practitioners. He regularly publishes his views on the development of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Mental Health Act 1983 in blogs, journals and books. He also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate university students as a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester and provides pro bono services through his Dementia Law Clinic.



Date: 10 December 2025    Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm

Venue:
Zoom

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