FACS & Risk Management Awareness Training Course

Health & Social Care Training Courses

AIMS:
This one day programme aims to examine risk assessment and management for Fair Access to Care Services; the eligibility and legal foundation for the criteria and the 'Putting People First' recommendations which underpin Personalisation and the future direction of care services.

OBJECTIVES:
This will be achieved by:

• Exploring the origin and implications of the FACS criteria in terms of Human Rights legislation and Community Care law.
• Eligibility as risk to independence and how this is translated into need.
• The professional responsibility of the worker in applying the FACS criteria.
• The eligibility criteria in detail and its place in the Personalisation agenda.
• Current case law underpinning FACS, direct payments and individualised budgets and the myths of personalisation.
• Assessing for the eligibility criteria.
• Understanding risk in the context of FACS, Best Interests decisions and the Mental Capacity Act.
• Using theoretical frameworks to evidence decision making in the risk assessment process for FACS.

OUTCOMES:
By the end of the session, workers will have an understanding of the FACS criteria and it assessment; the management of risk and its assessment against the criteria and the personalisation agenda which will spearhead the future direction of social care and the professional's role.