Learning symposium: Community legal frameworks for people with learning disabilities

This one day course aims to enable health and social services staff understand the different legal options for people with a learning disability. In particular, it considers the options available under the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and inherent jurisdiction looking at the criteria, powers and limitations of each.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Understand the key legal routes for discharge into the community
• Explain how clients with different presentations and risks can be legally protected
• Demonstrate how different legal routes will affect their clients / service users
• Illustrate how they could use the various legal options available to them

*This session is open to Social Workers and staff working in Social Care across the Teaching Partnership (Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Enfield, and Norwood).