AMHP Maintaining Competence Programme 

Specialist Continued Professional Development Programme

The Mental Health (AMHP) (England) Regulations 2008 requires all AMHPs to complete at least 18 hours of learning activity every year relevant to their AMHP work.

An annual refresher training programme is commissioned for AMHPs maintaining competence which aims to provide a range of complex topics and the interface with the Mental Health Act which will contribute to their continuing professional development (CPD).

There is a reduced rate for members of the local authorities in the Partnership.

Other professionals (managers, doctors and generic social workers, etc) are able to book onto the training at the non-member rate.

Cheshire AMHP Partnership CPD Programme 2025

NOTE: The AMHP Partnership have taken the decision to offer a variation on the training programme options and will now be running a joint programme with some training running exclusively face to face.

Cheshire AMHP Partnership CPD Programme
Date Virtual MS Teams coursesSpeaker
15 January 2025 Social Supervisor Refresher David Cochrane
12 February 2025 Perinatal Mental Health Sarah Hall
26 March 2025 Social Trauma Model Sally Plumb
29 April 2025 Neurodiversity (Autism and ADHD) Chris Wee and Joe Johnson
6 May 2025 Child and Adolescent mental health and the interface with the MHA Karen Needler and Gavin Rogers
15 July 2025 Antiracism in Micro-decisions Hári Sewell
16 October 2025 - bookings are now closed, but watch for his new course on our upcoming 2026 calendar Risk Assessment and MHA Michael Brown (Aka Mental Health Cop)
15 December 2025  Legal Update Neil Allen
Cheshire AMHP Partnership CPD Programme 2020
Date and locationFace to face coursesSpeakerRoom
20 November 2024 Eating disorders Dr Matthew Cahill Mollington Banastre Hotel, Chester
20 June 2025 MHA/ MCA interface Mark Cooper Holiday Inn, Ellesmere Port
12 September 2025 Legal Update  Neil Allen Holiday Inn, Ellesmere Port
18 November 2025 Dementia and the interface with the MHA and MCA Graham Stokes Holiday Inn, Ellesmere Port

Generic Mental Health Training for those who are NOT AMHP trained

Cheshire AMHP Partnership CPD Programme
Date Virtual MS Teams coursesSpeaker
8 October 2025

Non AMHP Course: Bird’s-Eye View of the MHA for non AMHPs

Bird’s-Eye View of the Mental Health Act – an overview for managers and other professionals.

Topics:

  1. Section 1 MHA, definition of mental disorder
  2. Detentions under section 2 and 3 – requirements and AMHP role
  3. Urgent sections 4, 5(2) and 136 – actions and roles
  4. Nearest relative and advocacy
  5. MCA application in context of interface with MHA and community
  6. Warrants:  section 135(1) and 135(2)
  7. Key players - AMHP and 140
  8. Brief overview of section 117
 Michael Brown (Aka Mental Health Cop)

Costs (vat exempt) and details of events

  • Partner rate - £80
  • Non-partner rate / external agency – £100 per person
  • Non-attendance will be charged where places are not cancelled at least 2 weeks before
  • Provides 6 hours towards AMHP 18 hour annual training requirement
  • Attendance will be registered when you are logged on for the duration of the course
  • Feedback forms will be sent electronically following the course
  • Certificate of attendance is embedded in the feedback form and available to be saved at the end of the completed feedback to be used as CPD evidence.

The form below will take 3 minutes to complete.

Book an AMHP training course

Cancellations 

Cancellations need emailing to amhppartnership@cheshireeast.gov.uk

Page last reviewed: 18 June 2025

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