Mental Capacity Awareness Act Training

Please book your places via Trent self-service or email pwbotu@powys.gov.uk

This half day course aims to enable participants to have an awareness of the Mental Capacity 2005 and to be able to apply it to their everyday practice with service users.

Learning outcomes

• Understand the key rules and procedures of the Mental      Capacity Act
• Explain how their working practices will be affected by      using the Mental Capacity Act
• Illustrate the skills needed to assess capacity of a      client they are working with
• Demonstrate practical application of the Act

The course will include the following key topics:

• Adults: consent and the Mental Capacity Act
• Overview of the Act – who, when, where and why?
• The principles of the Act
• How the Act works – capacity > best interest >      restraint > DoLS
• When and why to use the Act?
• Assessing mental capacity -  the four point      assessment - detail
• Case study  – the Act in general use
• Best Interests – why and how
• Practice issues – locked doors, personal care, covert      medication, escorted out
• Covid-19 – consent and the MCA in practice