Mental Capacity Act & DoLS: Decisions, Rights and Restrictions
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Apply the five principles, assess capacity for a specific decision, act in best interests, and know when a deprivation of liberty needs authorising.
- Assign to
- Health and care practitioners
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Evidence
- 11-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Use the five principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
- Carry out a decision-specific capacity assessment.
- Recognise a deprivation of liberty and what DoLS requires.
The course
- 01Five principles
- 02Assessing capacity
- 03Best interests and liberty
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Write Pat’s capacity record”, learners rewrite a realistic document line by line and see the effect of each choice. In “Talking with Pat’s son”, a face-to-face conversation, learners practise what to say and do when the other person pushes back. The wrong options are things a well-meaning person might genuinely say, and the feedback explains why each one is tempting. Short animations show “The five principles” and “How restrictive?”.
How you know they finished
The 11-question quiz mixes multiple choice and matching questions and returns to the opening story.
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Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Care Act 2014
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 11-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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