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This training is a one-day event and can be delivered onsite / face-to-face or by webinar. Extended training is available.
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) is a statutory framework that supports people who lack capacity to make decisions for themselves. Where a person lacks capacity, the MCA lays out who can make decisions in the person’s best interests, and how such decisions must be made.
This workshop helps organisations, care providers and support staff to better understand and manage their responsibilities and duties under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA).
This course covers what is meant by mental capacity, who the MCA applies to, who can carry out a mental capacity assessment and how to assess and support an incapacitated person in their best interests.
This training supports social care providers to promote human rights, to comply and work within legal frameworks and satisfy Care Quality Commission expectations.
Key learning objectives covered within this training:
- Mental Capacity Act as Part of Human Rights
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA)
- Assessing Mental Capacity
- Best interest assessments and decisions
- Deprivation of Liberty & Liberty Safeguards frameworks
- Mental Capacity Act and Young People aged 16 or 17
- Mental Capacity Act and Adult Safeguarding
- The Court of Protection
- The Human Rights Act 1998
- The Mental Health Act 1983
- Relationship between the Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act
Key outcomes:
- An ability to define and discuss what the term ‘mental capacity’ means
- An ability to define, discuss and evaluate the five core principles of the MCA
- An ability to define to explain how mental capacity is assessed
- Avoiding liability and working within the MCA framework
- An ability to define and discuss the role of the Court of Protection and how to support people that need to use its services
- An ability to define and discuss safeguards including risk assessments
An ability to define and discuss the assessment and authorisation process under Deprivation of Liberty
An ability to define, understand and apply the principles of best interests assessments and decisions
An ability to define issues associated with supporting an incapacitated individual in his or her best interests
Training facilitators:
This training is delivered by facilitators trained in psychiatry. We specialise in all areas of psychiatry, abnormal psychology, personality disorder and forensic mental health risk. We offer wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills. High quality, integrated evidence-based training that you can trust.
