Liberty and Human Rights for adults with disabilities | Social Work Week 2023

This in-depth session is aimed at social workers, carers and other professionals who work with adults with disabilities.
Jointly delivered by Dorset Council, Bradford Council and 39 Essex Chambers, it will focus around 3 key discussions:
1. A co-produced session on how to support people to take control of their own decisions and understand their human rights.
2. Applying the Human Rights Act and the Mental Capacity Act legal frameworks to practice.
3. Unpicking the social work value base behind the Mental Capacity Act and looking how social work values will be vital during the future implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards.
Presenters
Ian Brownhill - Court of Protection Barrister, 39 Essex Chambers
Sue Farmer - Specialist Manager, Mental Capacity Act Team, Dorset Council
Tilly Baden - Assistant Team Manager, Mental Capacity Act Team, Dorset Council
Steve Crocker - Principle Social Worker, Dorset Council
Rob Mitchell - Principle Social Worker, Bradford Council
Jack Skinner - Service Manager, Bradford Council
This session took place on Friday 24 March 2023.

[@amylawsongill]

I am being bullied by a team of social workers who have disagreed with an earlier team decision for setting up care plans. Leicestershire Social Services are overusing and abusing their powers and a disagreement in Care Plans has led to threatening me with a mental capacity assessment that was implemented without authority, over Zoom, not acting in the disabled person's best interests

[@ivortoad]

You have to be a part of the planning and agree to the assessment and care plan if you're happy with it. Then you you must be given a copy of it. You may ask for another assessment and changes later if you need to.
Google 2014 care Act and Statutory Guidance for the 2014 Care Act.

[@briana9918]

I'm sick of bullying teams, institutions, colleagues, and managers in the social "care" sector. I'm so sorry you're going through this even more sorry for what your client is being put through by the psychopaths in charge