Mental Capacity Act Awareness Training

You have arrived at this page either by chance (!) or because you attended Stephen’s training session Mental Capacity Act Awareness

Here are the slides from the session

DISTRIBUTION Durham MCA for Childrens ServicesDownload
Mental_Capacity_Act_code_of_practiceDownload
Jessica-case-study-1Download
Jessica-case-study-2-Reported-ConcernDownload
Jessica-case-study-3-HospitalDownload
Jessica-case-study-4-Jessica-and-her-boyfriendDownload

Resources

The 39 Essex web site is highly recommended for MCA resources

Here’s the link to the home page – 39 Essex Homepage

And here’s the resources page – 39 Essex Resources

This is 39 Essex guide to carrying out Best Interests Assessment 

Mental-Capacity-Guidance-Note-Best-InterestsDownload

Click this link for the Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice Mental_Capacity_Act_code_of_practice

From Social Work Shorts

You can also read this about assessing capacity from Social Work Shorts’ Jamie Scorer

To be or not to be? Did Hamlet have the Mental Capacity to make that decision?