Learnings form the World Congress on Adult Support and Care in Buenos Aires

About the Seminar:

“Need to know” developments for practitioners, particularly but not limited to AWI practitioners, arise from the 2024 World Congress on Adult Support and Care.  Rapidly developing understanding and application of human rights principles, and their progressive integration into the interpretation of the provisions and requirements of our AWI legislation, mean that the updates offered in this seminar have become essential not only to achieve best practice, but to provide minimum standards of adequate services.

Immediately applicable are the obligations upon court practitioners to make good the increasingly wide “implementation gaps” often encountered in our courts; while all practitioners need to ensure compliance with requirements such as providing to persons with disabilities whatever support “they may require in exercising their legal capacity”, and where appropriate to offer arrangements such as co-decision-making and advance choices, as well as being constantly aware of the broad scope and effects of the…