Session 3: Legal Literacy & MHA Overview
2026-07-07 09:30 - 12:30 (Europe/London) | MS Teams (Session 3), https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/36498059902093?p=QPZEZYV0s3ob590qbZ
Join us for Workshop 3 of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Social Work CPD Programme 2026: Legal Literacy & MHA Overview.

This session strengthens your confidence in navigating the key statutory frameworks that shape mental health social work practice. You will explore the intersections between the Mental Health Act (MHA), Mental Capacity Act (MCA), Care Act, S117, the Human Rights Act, and Children Act duties, and examine how these frameworks interact in practice across multi‑agency and multi‑disciplinary settings.

Date: 30/06/2026
Time: 09:00 (Room Opens)
09:20 – 12:30 (Session Runs)
Teams Link: Join the Training 🙂

AMHP Workshop: Self-Neglect & Hoarding
2026-07-15 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This session explores the interface between self‑neglect, hoarding, the Care Act, and the Mental Health Act. It focuses on risk, capacity, engagement, and lawful AMHP decision‑making in complex, non‑linear situations.

August 2026: Guided Learning Month
2026-08-03 - 2026-08-28 | DCC-i Portal
August is a Guided Learning Month, providing structured, self‑directed CPD in place of a live workshop. This month is designed to give you protected space to consolidate learning from the first three workshops, deepen your reflective practice, and prepare for the next stage of the programme. The Guided Learning Month offers a flexible but purposeful structure, enabling you to engage independently or with peers at a pace that fits your workload. Activities draw on the programme’s core commitment to trauma‑informed, legally literate and analytically confident mental health social work.

Additional materials will be available on the DCC‑i Programme Hub, including reflective prompts, reading bundles, trauma‑aware tools, mini‑scenarios, and critical analysis activities, all designed to help embed learning across the workforce.

Coventry AMHP Peer Group Supervision (3)
2026-09-02 09:30 - 11:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This peer supervision group provides a confidential, supportive space for AMHPs to reflect on practice, share professional dilemmas, and think collectively about complex decision‑making. The session is practitioner‑led and discussion‑focused, supporting critical reflection, professional curiosity, and shared learning across diverse AMHP experiences. It is not case management, but a structured opportunity to step back, test thinking, and strengthen professional confidence within a psychologically safe peer setting.
As we head into the autumn period, this session is a chance to regroup, reflect on the past quarter, and look at any shifts in workload, MCA/MHA interface issues, or emerging themes in decision‑making. We’ll shape the agenda around what you need on the day.
See you there for those that can join us

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AMHP Peer Supervision Group - Session 3
2026-09-02 13:30 - 15:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This peer supervision group provides a confidential, supportive space for AMHPs to reflect on practice, share professional dilemmas, and think collectively about complex decision‑making. The session is practitioner‑led and discussion‑focused, supporting critical reflection, professional curiosity, and shared learning across diverse AMHP experiences. It is not case management, but a structured opportunity to step back, test thinking, and strengthen professional confidence within a psychologically safe peer setting.

AMHP Workshop: Older Age & Mental Health
2026-09-17 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This session focuses on mental health practice with older adults, including split readiness, diagnostic complexity, and domestic abuse in later life. It supports AMHPs to navigate overlapping legal frameworks and nuanced safeguarding considerations

AMHP Workshop: Older Adult Mental Health
2026-09-17 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j

Session 4: Writing MCA and BI Assessments
2026-09-22 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams (Session 4), https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/33081479387001?p=EHfdLL6lInBCN8EyZH
Join us for Workshop 4 of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Social Work CPD Programme 2026: Writing MCA & Best‑Interest Assessments.

This session focuses on building confidence and fluency in completing clear, defensible and trauma‑aware Mental Capacity Act (MCA) assessments and Best‑Interest decision‑making rationales. It will support you to evidence the functional test, structure your analysis, and produce written reasoning that stands up to scrutiny across multidisciplinary and legal contexts.

Date: 22/09/2026
Time: 09:00 (Room Opens)
09:20 – 12:30 (Session Runs)
Teams Link: Join the Training 🙂

AMHP Workshop: Children & Young People
2026-10-06 09:30 - 12:30

Session 5: MSE for Social Workers
2026-10-14 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams (Session 5), https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/37097199351502?p=ZFadCBAbQFYWbBBSTL
Join us for Workshop 5 of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Social Work CPD Programme 2026: Mental State Examination for Social Workers.
This workshop builds practical confidence in observing, interpreting and meaningfully applying MSE findings within social work practice. It is designed to strengthen your ability to integrate clinical information with trauma‑aware, rights‑based, and holistic social work reasoning.

Date: 14/10/2026
Time: 09:00 (Room Opens)
09:20 – 12:30 (Training)
Teams Link: Join the Training 🙂

Session 6: Care Act 2014 in Mental Health Settings
2026-11-10 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams (Session 6), https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/[REDACTED]?p=cTg49Dkhzrx2lEmDg4
Join us for Workshop 6 of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Social Work CPD Programme 2026: Care Act in Mental Health.
This session strengthens your understanding of Care Act duties as they apply within all‑age mental health pathways. It focuses on building clarity and confidence in applying eligibility, assessing needs, and working with complexity across adults, children, transitions and parent carer contexts.

Date: 10/11/2026
Time: 09:00 (Room Opens)
09:20 – 16:30 (session starts)
Teams Link: Join the Training 🙂

AMHP Clinic: MHA 2025 (2)
2026-11-11 00:00

AMHP Peer Supervision Group - Session 4
2026-12-01 10:30 - 12:30

AMHP Clinic: MHA 2025 (1)
2026-12-05 00:00

AMHP Workshop: MDT & Police
2026-12-05 00:00

Session 7: Section 117 Duties & Aftercare
2026-12-09 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams (Session 7), https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/33558636276699?p=p7KPc59LcsuqPT0tac
Join us for Workshop 7 of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Social Work CPD Programme 2026: S117 Duties, Funding & Aftercare.
This session provides essential clarity on Section 117 aftercare duties, including legal responsibilities, joint‑agency working expectations, and the practical application of S117 in everyday mental health social work. It focuses on strengthening your confidence in navigating complex responsibilities, ensuring lawful, person‑centred and well‑coordinated aftercare planning.

Date: 09/12/2026
Time: 09:00 (Room Opens)
09:20 – 12:30 (Session Runs)
Teams Link: Join the Training 🙂

Coventry AMHP Peer Supervision Group (4)
2026-12-18 10:00 - 12:00 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
This peer supervision group provides a confidential, supportive space for AMHPs to reflect on practice, share professional dilemmas, and think collectively about complex decision‑making. The session is practitioner‑led and discussion‑focused, supporting critical reflection, professional curiosity, and shared learning across diverse AMHP experiences. It is not case management, but a structured opportunity to step back, test thinking, and strengthen professional confidence within a psychologically safe peer setting.
Our final supervision session of 2026. This will be a reflective wrap‑up of the year, what’s worked, what’s shifted, and what we want to carry forward.
See you there folks!

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Session 8: Safeguarding, Risk & Complexity
2027-01-20 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams (Session 8), https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/34032780038491?p=f9n3bFfOFxMLcRZy1b
Join us for Workshop 8 of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Social Work CPD Programme 2026: Risk, Safeguarding & Complexity.
This workshop strengthens your capability in trauma‑aware risk formulation, safeguarding analysis, and working with the complex patterns that often arise within mental health social work. It supports you to build confident, defensible decision‑making in contexts where risk, need, trauma and behaviour intersect.

Date: 20/01/2027
Time: 09:00 (Room Opens) 09:30 – 12:30 (Session Runs)
Teams Link: Join the Training 🙂

Session 9: Integrated Case Formulation
2027-02-24 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams (Session 9), https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39671420796979?p=HVdBjXLv37jYp4snny
Join us for Workshop 9 of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Social Work CPD Programme 2026: Integrated Case Formulation.
This session brings together the programme’s core strands – law, trauma, MSE, personality disorder, and risk – and supports you to integrate these into coherent, defensible and person‑centred case formulations. It is designed to enhance your ability to hold complexity, synthesise diverse information, and shape structured, trauma‑aware professional reasoning.

Date: 24/02/2026
Time: 09:00 (Room Opens)
09:20 – 12:30 (Session Runs)
Teams Link: Join the Training 🙂

Statutory Roles & Court Skills
2027-03-03 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Practical and confidence-building development for tribunal and court-facing practice, covering structured report writing, professional analysis, tribunal and MoJ expectations, and managing scrutiny and cross-examination.

Session 10: Critical Analysis, Ethical Reasoning & Professional Judgement
2027-03-09 09:30 - 12:30 | MS Teams (Session 10), https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/32125244912567?p=m2oI0nvoGgxcD7jKKc
Join us for Workshop 10 of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Social Work CPD Programme 2026: Critical Analysis, Reflective Reasoning & Professional Judgement.
This final workshop focuses on building the advanced analytical, reflective and decision‑making capabilities that underpin safe, defensible and ethically grounded mental health social work. It brings together your learning across the year and supports you to apply structured, critical reasoning to complex practice scenarios.

Date: 09/03/2026
Time: 09:00 (Room Opens)
09:20 – 12:30 (Session Runs)
Teams Link: Join the Training 🙂

Domestic Abuse Advanced Practice
2027-04-02 09:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Building deep specialist knowledge for safeguarding and relational risk, including non-fatal strangulation, online coercion, trauma bonding, cultural and intersectional patterns in domestic abuse, and safe engagement with perpetrators.

Crisis Decision-Making Under Pressure
2027-06-01 09:30 | MS Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/314522770906556?p=MHKZx0dy45b7EB6v1j
Strengthening defensibility and clarity under time-critical conditions with rapid MCA and risk formulation tools, managing AMHP-practitioner interfaces, and balancing ethics, pressure, risk and rights.
