Exploring Complexity: Mental Capacity Assessment: Webinar

Adult social care practitioners need to be comfortable with assessing mental capacity in a range of complex circumstances and in working with people where they are found to lack capacity to make their own decisions.

This webinar with Alex Ruck Keene explores how relevant legislation fits with national policy, including the strengths based perspective, and professional ethics. Complex practice examples to support delegates to develop their skills in mental capacity assessment will be explored.

This event is unlikely to meet the needs of people in newly qualified roles. The event is for delegates who have experience in applying the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 in practice and aims to act as a refresher of the MCA principles and to support experienced practitioners consolidate their knowledge.

This webinar looks at:

• The principles of the Mental Capacity Act
• Capacity: What does the act actually say?
• Reducing complexity
• Capacity and deprivation of liberty
• What makes a good capacity determination?
• The Court of Protection
• What happens if there are engagement challenges?

Resources that are mentioned in this webinar

• 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Guidance Note - Inherent Jurisdiction
• Deprivation of liberty and 16/17 year olds shedinar