The Best Interests Assessor Practice Handbook: Second edition

✍ Scribed by Rachel Hubbard; Kevin Stone

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Best Interests Assessor (BIA) Practice Handbook is firmly grounded in real-life practice and remains the only textbook focusing directly on the BIA role. Offering clear and practical advice on the legal elements of the role, and the values and practice elements of working within the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) framework, this is essential reading for BIA students and practitioners. This fully-updated edition takes account of recent legislative changes, including the planned changes from the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS), recent case law and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on BIA practice. Packed with advice on delivering effective, person-centred, rights-driven practice, it includes: • case studies; • legal summaries; • decision-making activities; • CPD support; • examples of new case law in practice. Looking forward, the book considers the new context for practice in the Approved Mental Capacity Professional (AMCP) role within the LPS and the potential roles that BIAs might fulfil in this new framework in the future.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
About the authors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and acronymscommonly used in BIA practice
DoLS mapping
1. Introduction
Part 1: Context for practice
2. The BIA role in practice
3. The multi-professional BIA role
4. Working with others
Part 2: Assessments, challenges and dilemmas
5. Making Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards decisions
6. Evidence-informed practice
7. Ethical dilemmas in BIA practice
8. BIA recording
Part 3: Developing good practice
9. BIA continuing professional development
10. BIA futures
References
Statutes and case law
Index
Back Cover