The Mental Capacity Act in Practice Full Day/ LLR Safeguarding Adults Board

Duration: 6,5 hours including lunchtime and breaks

Target Audience: Staff within the partnership working across LLR with adults and/or children over 16, who have experience working to the Mental Capacity Act or have completed the MCA basic awareness course.

Session Aim:

This course aims to enable qualified social workers and other social care staff to maximise their skills in implementing the Mental Capacity Act 2005 confidently and apply this in daily practice.

The course will include the following key topics:

• Importance of the Mental Capacity Act – recent case law

• Why do I need to use the MCA? Consent and the MCA overview

• When should I assess capacity?

• Assessment of capacity – detail

• The Importance of use or weigh – examples

• How do I assess capacity? Practical points

• What should I write? Guidance from case law and local policy/systems

• Implied consent? Care plans and frequency of assessments

• Best Interests – overview and detail

• Best Interests meetings – guidance

• Families, consulting and disputes with best interests

• Court of Protection – when and why to use

• Social work assessments and reviews – applying the Act

• Restraint – definition and criteria for use

• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards - when, where and why

• Identifying care plans that may be DoLS and Local Authority responsibilities

• Advocacy (IMCA) – the right to IMCA and the duty to refer

• Lasting Powers of Attorney & Deputies – impact on care and challenging

• Working with LPA’s and Deputies in practice and dealing with concerns

Session Objectives:

• On completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Understand the key parts of the Mental Capacity Act 2005

• Explain how their working practices will be affected by the legislation

• Demonstrate how the Act will affect their clients / service users

• Illustrate how they will use different parts of the Act in their job role

Trainer : Edge Training and Consultancy, who have been commissioned by the Leicester Safeguarding Adults Board and Leicestershire and Rutland Safeguarding Adults Board to run the training on The Board's behalf.

Adult Competencies met with this course :

“6. Be aware of relevant legislation, local and national policies and procedures which relate to safeguarding adults”.

“8. Know how to support people to think about risk when exercising choice and control”.

“19. Understand importance of sharing information with relevant agencies”.

“22. Make sound and consistent decisions as part of implementing the local policy and procedure”.

Course Handouts (in PDF) to be provided by Edge for delegates.

Host or Publisher Leicester Safeguarding Children Partnership Board and Leicestershire&Rutland Safeguarding Children Partnership