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Welcome to the NHS Walsall & Walsall Council Mental Capacity Act e-Learning portal. Below are a series of e-Learning programmes developed and hosted by the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
This is a free training resource which will supplement face-to-face training in the Mental Capacity Act. However, it should not be used in isolation or as an alternative to face-to-face training. This is because people always have questions and e-Learning does not give you the opportunity to have them answered as it does when attending face-to-face training.
To take part in this e-Learning, simply click on the sessions below to improve your understanding of The Mental Capacity Act:
Supporting people to make their own decisions
Explores why the Mental Capacity Act 2005 was introduced and who is affected by the Act (Estimated study time: 20-30 minutes).
Making day-to-day decisions about care and support
Explores what is meant by making day-to-day decisions and how we can assess a person’s capacity to make their own decisions.
Best interest decisions about day-to-day care and support
Explores what the Act means by ‘best interests’ as well as when best interests decisions need to be made.
Making more complex decisions
Explores why, when and how to carry out a formal, recorded assessment of capacity.
More complex best interests decision making
Explores how you begin to work out a person’s best interests in a practical context and the limits and challenges associated with best interests decision making.
What to do when there is disagreement
Explores what kinds of disagreement can arise in relation to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and possible solutions to resolve these.
Planning for the future
Explores who can make decisions on behalf of other people and when those decisions can be made.
A guide to the deprivation of liberty safeguards
Looks at the law on deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS).
Interface between the MCA and MHA
Explores the relationship between the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and the Mental Health Act (MHA) of 1983 (as amended by the Mental Heath Act 2007) the difference between the two laws in relation to detention and deprivation of liberty.
