The next Wednesday webinar from Care and Health Law’s Belinda Schwehr, on 3rd August at 2pm, is typical of what legal framework training can provide by way of increased legal literacy – whichever side of the sector you’re interested in.
It’s all about the law and guidance about care and support planning, this month - the very heart of personalised adult social care services.
Two of the most pressing legal questions besetting the sector will be addressed: the legality of a zero budget for an eligible need, on the basis that one can and should get one’s needs met informally and/or locally via others’ services – and the legality of offering a budget or care package, capped to the theoretically equivalent cost of an appropriate care home placement…
The menu is as follows:
- The legal framework for care and support planning – the essentials of the Care Act, for everyone’s clarity
- Meeting eligible needs with a zero budget – how can that be lawful?
- Who decides what is a lawfully ‘appropriate’ way to meet need?
- Who finalises the budget and what does ‘sufficiency’ mean?
- The legal risk associated with cost-capping of a domiciliary care package by reference to the asserted cost of an appropriate residential care home package
- Is one entitled to support, to help one draft one’s own plan? And what about being funded to choose one’s planning support service?
- The basic differences between direct payments and managed and/or or commissioned Personal Budgets
- The basics of top-ups for accommodation placements, and top-ups for wants vs needs in general
- Why does ordinary residence matter for care planning?
- The basics of complying with the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty principles, for care planning
- What sort of flexibility could a carer expect, when it’s a carer’s support plan that’s being done?
- Remedies - when a support or care plan just can’t be agreed for sign-off; and people's rights, in the meantime.
I am hoping that these webinars are the best blend of affordable but high quality legal framework training that you can get in England, at this moment.
If you’ve read the SCIE report into Norfolk’s difficulties with implementing the Act, you could only conclude that more legally literate training is what is needed…..
The basic Webinar series is £1500 for 24 hours of material over the year, for as many staff as wish to hear the recordings – and the specialist series costs £1750 for 36 hours. There are scaled fees for smaller organisations, and individuals can buy into the series for as little as £10 a webinar (or £90 for the set of 12).
All webinar packages can be bought from www.SchwehrOnCARE.co.uk/webinars. An organisation’s admin workload is minimised, through automated registrations for all the webinars, once your staff have provided their details for their own personal accounts.
The annual Calendar for both series, basic and specialist, showing all the dates and topics, (past as well as future, because the past ones are included in all organisational purchases, as recordings) is found on this link here (Calendar) and the technical details can be found by clicking this link here (Technical and Admin Info).
Whenever you make your purchase, you get the whole set, past and future, but it makes sense to buy now, and make the most of the ‘live seat’ facility for the webinars that are yet to be delivered – because that way, you get 5 transferable seats for each webinar for asking questions, for large organisations, and 2 seats for small organisations (as well as recordings for all, of course).
Hoping to meet you, in the online training room, for the next session on August 3rd - click here www.SchwehrOnCARE.co.uk/webinars
If you’d like to hear a bit more about the intention and passion behind the webinars, please click here:
Best Regards
Belinda Schwehr
Care and Health Law
Tel 01252 725890
Mobile 07974 399361
Administrator for bookings and billing: Debbie Tomlinson
debbie@careandhealthlaw.com Tel: 01252 494098