Mental Capacity Act and Safeguarding Adults (07/03/2025)

Course Details

Date(s):07/03/2025  ( 13:0016:00 )
Delivery:

Face to Face

Facilitated By:

Rhiannon Mainwaring

Service User:

Adults

VAWDASV

The session will support adult practitioners to become more aware of the risk considerations, support options and best practice guidance to enable practitioners to respond effectively and lawfully.

The session will act as a useful follow up for practitioners that have attended generic Group C training, and who have identified they would benefit from additional CPD in relation to MCA.

Target Audience:

This course is suitable for adult practitioners who have direct responsibility for safeguarding people:

  • Who support or provide care to vulnerable people who may lack capacity to consent to care,
  • who are receiving care in a community setting,
  • Who have an assessing role that’s linked to mental capacity and the safeguarding process,

and / or,

  • Who are operating at a level where they give advice about safeguarding to others,
  • Who spend a lot of time unsupervised and there may be safeguarding concerns, where people who by virtue of any chronic condition means they are reliant on others to advocate for them.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Explore the management of a safeguarding cases and how to apply the MCA Act to empower the adult with a person-centred approach.
  2. Discuss advocacy and safeguarding to ensure practitioners understand their duty.
  3. Identifying Legal literacy in order to act to balance the adult's autonomy and self-determination with practitioners’ duty of care and adults right to life.
  4. Review case studies to describe how the MCA could be used to protect the adult.
  5. Explore If adult lacks capacity how to apply the best interests process.
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