Covid-19: What's Changed Legally? How to ensure human rights are protected in adult social care practice
Venue
Webinar: Microsoft Teams, Teams
Event Tutors
Learning and Development
Admin Contact
Learning and Development (HRlearninganddevelopment@southglos.gov.uk)
Target Audience
CAH Staff / Social Care Staff
Event Types
Bite Sized Session
Course categories
Adult Social Care / Covid-19 Support
Adult Social Care subcategories
General Adult Social Care
Covid-19 Support subcategories
Legislation Changes
Event description
THIS EVENT WILL BE DELIVERED USING MICROSOFT TEAMS.
This 2-hour webinar is designed for adult social care practitioners and managers as a direct result of the current Covid-19 outbreak.
The British Institute of Human Rights deliver this session. It will focus on:
- Information on human rights and the Human Rights Act.
- The Coronavirus Act and the changes to legislation such as the Care Act (Easements), the Ethical Framework, the Mental Health Act/Mental Capacity Act interface, and SEND legislation.
The session will also include information on specific rights in the context of coronavirus such as those on the prohibition on inhuman and degrading treatment (Article 3) and private and family life, including choice, control, wellbeing (Article 8).
There will be practice guidance in relation to:
* Individuals with/without Covid 19 and with or without mental capacity in relation to Coronavirus Act requirements, in care settings who refuse to self-isolate and place others (and to some extent themselves) at risk. This represents a particularly complex balance between the MCA and the HRA.
* Difficult decisions around people’s ability to remain in contact with family members, particularly at end of life, and how we can advocate for this / support with technology etc
* Balancing providers’ abilities to deliver services (reduced capacity) with peoples’ needs, and how to make decisions about what is essential and non-essential care.
* Using the Ethical Framework and the Human Rights Act as a tool to discuss decision making processes with other (health) professionals - particularly around access to life saving treatment.
This 2-hour webinar is designed for adult social care practitioners and managers as a direct result of the current Covid-19 outbreak.
The British Institute of Human Rights deliver this session. It will focus on:
- Information on human rights and the Human Rights Act.
- The Coronavirus Act and the changes to legislation such as the Care Act (Easements), the Ethical Framework, the Mental Health Act/Mental Capacity Act interface, and SEND legislation.
The session will also include information on specific rights in the context of coronavirus such as those on the prohibition on inhuman and degrading treatment (Article 3) and private and family life, including choice, control, wellbeing (Article 8).
There will be practice guidance in relation to:
* Individuals with/without Covid 19 and with or without mental capacity in relation to Coronavirus Act requirements, in care settings who refuse to self-isolate and place others (and to some extent themselves) at risk. This represents a particularly complex balance between the MCA and the HRA.
* Difficult decisions around people’s ability to remain in contact with family members, particularly at end of life, and how we can advocate for this / support with technology etc
* Balancing providers’ abilities to deliver services (reduced capacity) with peoples’ needs, and how to make decisions about what is essential and non-essential care.
* Using the Ethical Framework and the Human Rights Act as a tool to discuss decision making processes with other (health) professionals - particularly around access to life saving treatment.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the webinar, delegates should have:
1. Greater confidence in their knowledge around these changes to the legislation.
2. Increased competence in understanding and applying the ethical framework and Human Rights Act should the council need to introduce Care Act easements.
3. Increased skills in knowing how to make defensible decisions in this context, and how to record these decisions.
1. Greater confidence in their knowledge around these changes to the legislation.
2. Increased competence in understanding and applying the ethical framework and Human Rights Act should the council need to introduce Care Act easements.
3. Increased skills in knowing how to make defensible decisions in this context, and how to record these decisions.
Start Date
Wednesday 3 June 2020
End Date
Friday 29 May 2020
Closing Date
Friday 29 May 2020
Times
10:00 - 12:00
Maximum Places
30
Cost
£0.00
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No