Text:E89-31

Conferences

Centre for Mental Health and Capacity Law CRPD events

Jill Stavert’s Centre at Edinburgh Napier is holding three events around the CRPD in October and November: a workshop on CRPD, mental health and capacity: overcoming obstacles to implementation; a seminar by Dr Shih-Ning Then: An Antipodean Perspective: Supported Decision-making in Law and Practice and a lecture by Professor Penelope Weller on Advance decision-making and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a cross- jurisdictional discussion. For details and to book, see here.

Taking Stock

Neil and Alex are speaking at the annual Approved Mental Health Professionals Association/University of Manchester taking stock conference on 16 November. For more details, and to book, see here.

Other events of interest

The London branch of the Court of Protection Practitioners Association is holding a seminar on care home fees on 8 November. For details, and to book, see here.

Advertising conferences and training events

If you would like your conference or training event to be included in this section in a subsequent issue, please contact one of the editors. Save for those conferences or training events that are run by non-profit bodies, we would invite a donation of £200 to be made to the dementia charity My Life Films in return for postings for English and Welsh events. For Scottish events, we are inviting donations to Alzheimer Scotland Action on Dementia.