Safeguarding Vulnerable Dependent Drinkers
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This one day course delivers the information and ideas in the Alcohol Change UK (ACUK) briefing Safeguarding Vulnerable Dependent Drinkers. The aim of that document and of this course is to:
Enable professionals in England to use legal frameworks to manage and protect chronic dependent drinkers
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Identify chronic dependent drinkers who require the protection and support of key legal powers
- Understand how the Care Act applies to this group
- Understand how the Mental Capacity Act applies
- Understand how the Mental Health Act applies
- Understand what interventions flow from action under these powers
- Understand what helps makes these powers work to their best effect