The Mental Capacity Act, Domestic Abuse, Coercive Control & Adults at Risk (27/11/2024)

The sessions are aimed at multi agency practitioners involved in direct work with adults who may be at risk.

This 1 day course is aimed at practitioners working with adults who have social care needs and who may be at risk of domestic abuse including coercive control when capacity may be a concern.

Aim:

To become aware of the risk considerations, support options and best practice guidance to enable practitioners to respond effectively.

Target Audience:

This course is suitable for 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. Define the dynamics of domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour and explain the impact of domestic abuse and coercive control on an individual.
2. Describe what the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA), associated case law and Adult Practice Reviews’ guidance and explanation about coercion and capacity.
3. Discuss the management and assessment of risk, informed by the adult wherever possible, to agree responses that respect autonomy and self-determination whilst balancing duty of care and promotion of dignity.
4. Explain the process and good practice if someone experiencing coercion has or has not the mental capacity to make decisions related to their living arrangements and contact with the alleged perpetrator.
5. Apply the learning to case studies to explore practice situations and demonstrate safe, proportionate and empowering responses for the adult at risk.

Pre-requisite – To access this session participants are required to have undertaken previous Mental Capacity Act training including assessing capacity – for example ‘Mental Capacity Act – How to Assess’ or its equivalent.