Children's social workers lack knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, meaning they could be breaching the legislation in child protection cases involving parents with learning disabilities, warn more info
Posted: 23 May 2012Tender For Mental Health Advocacy, Independent Mental Health Advocacy, Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy and Paid Relevant Person’s Representative more info
Posted: 10 May 2012Families are being supported to challenge professionals who exclude them from decisions taken on behalf of their loved-ones under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. more info
Posted: 24 April 2012Social workers fear referring clients to user-led organisations for support in using direct payments because of concerns ULOs will challenge practitioners’ decisions. more info
Posted: 24 April 2012Residential care managers must provide visible leadership for staff and residents, rather than be "hidden behind an office door", to ensure good practice, says a guide to the role published by the more info
Posted: 10 April 2012Border staff are to ask social workers to carry out assessments of learning disabled people's capacity to consent to marry in order to stop visas being granted to foreign spouses in such cases. more info
Posted: 05 April 2012NHS training in safeguarding is being squeezed by requirements to train staff in identifying adults at risk of becoming terrorists, it has been claimed. more info
Posted: 02 April 2012The Care Quality Commission has raised concerns over the protection of vulnerable adults because of its inability to monitor deprivation of liberty assessments by social workers and other more info
Posted: 27 March 2012An investigation by Which? has found that older people are being put at serious risk from missed and rushed home care visits. more info
Posted: 16 March 2012Social workers need to work harder to enable service users to make decisions for themselves, says independent mental capacity advocate and consultant Natalie Saunders. (Image: Purestock/Getty more info
Posted: 12 March 2012Mel Palmer explains how home care staff should apply the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in the case of a service user who is self-neglecting and refusing to take his medication more info
Posted: 05 March 2012Many vulnerable service users are being deprived of their liberty without safeguards because of the narrow scope of the law, experts have warned. more info
Posted: 29 February 2012The 'rudimentary' level of training provided to best interests assessors (BIAs) must be significantly improved to protect service users under the deprivation of liberty safeguards (Dols), Paul more info
Posted: 20 February 2012Safeguarding failings by social work staff left a learning disabled couple at the mercy of a relative who used power of attorney to abuse them for six years, an investigation has found. more info
Posted: 16 February 2012A care home worker has been jailed for one year for abusing four residents with dementia. more info
Posted: 13 February 2012Social workers need more effective training and guidance in applying the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to take decisions on behalf of service users and support them to make decisions for themselves. more info
Posted: 31 January 2012Social work performance management has become associated with bureaucracy, a negligible impact on quality and poor morale. However, one council says that it has designed and implemented a system that more info
Posted: 27 January 2012A recent Court of Appeal judgement was described as the death of the deprivation of liberty safeguards. However, best interests assessor Lorraine Currie disagrees, and says Lord Justice Munby's more info
Posted: 18 January 2012Nine hundred adult social care staff, including social workers, will be transferred to the NHS to create the biggest integrated health and social care provider in the UK, it was confirmed more info
Posted: 13 January 2012Social care professionals have been urged to look out for indicators of financial abuse among people with dementia after Alzheimer's Society warned that the problem was rife among the client group. more info
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Young people and adults with learning disabilities who have sexually harmful behaviour present one of the most complex challenges to services. This conference will focus on the assessment and more info
Dates: 25th February 2010A one day training session designed to cover the main features of the Act and how these apply to the participants everyday working lives more info
Dates: 11 November 2009This one day conference will provide delegates with up to date information and an overview of the practical issues that need to be addressed to implement the new mental health act and the Mental more info
Dates: 18/11/2009This event will consider ways of implementing the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to improve the quality of lives for people with learning disabilities. It will also introduce the Deprivation of Liberty more info
Dates: 16/06/2010This event will consider ways of implementing the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to improve the quality of lives for people with learning disabilities. It will also introduce the Deprivation of Liberty more info
Dates: 04/03/2010This timely and unique confernece has been designed to explore and share the benefits and challenges of volunteer advocacy. It aims to stimulate debate and broaden understanding of volunteer advocacy more info
Dates: Wednesday 14 October 2009This event will reflect on the history that led to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and explore in more depth what it means to have mental capacity and the implications of that for people with autistic more info
Dates: 30/06/2010This event will reflect on the history that led to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and explore in more depth what it means to have mental capacity and the implications of that for people with autistic more info
Dates: 16/03/2010This unique event will bring together staff from social services, the NHS, voluntary and independent sector organisations and legal services to discuss how practice is changing as a result of the more info
Dates: 21/09/2009This one day conference provides a practical guide to moving forward with the Mental Capacity Act, and it’s link to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) which came into force April this year. more info
Dates: Wednesday 9th July 2009An introduction to the MCA and DOLS and how it impacts on your work in a learning disability service. For more information please visit the eventspage on our more info
Dates: 14 July 2009An introduction to the MCA and DOLS, how it impacts on your work in a learning disability service. For more information please visit the eventspage on our more info
Dates: 07 July 2009This one-day conference will explore the progress made and some of the lessons learned from the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act. The next steps now required to implement the Deprivation of more info
Dates: 21/05/2009The conference will discuss implementing the safeguards in practice, implementing and understanding the code of practice and key points for local authorities, NHS bodies, care homes, managing more info
Dates: 29 April 2009A one day traning session covering the main points of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, including the Code of Practice, how to assess capacity, best interests assessments, lasting powers of attorney, more info
Dates: 6 May 2009A one day training session covering the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards ("DoLS"). Including a brief summary of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the difference between restriction and deprivation of more info
Dates: 3 March 2009A one day session covering all the main points of the Mental Capacity Act as it applies to England and Wales. Includes how to assess capacity, the five principles of the Act, Lasting Powers of more info
Dates: 10 March 2009The Mental Capacity Act came into force during 2007 and provides direction and guidance for people who may lack capacity in relation to choices and decision making. The types of decision that are more info
Dates: 10 March 2009One day conference This unique event will bring together staff from social services, the NHS, voluntary and independent sector organisations and legal services to discuss more info
Dates: 16th Jan 2009A one-day session covering the main points of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The Act gives a framework for dealing with people who have difficulty making decisions about their own lives (this could more info
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Hi everyone
As a newly qualified social worker, I feel that the Mental Capacity Act is a positive and person centred piece of legislation which will improve the level of participation and
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I was and am a big sujpporter of valueing people but six or so years down the line i am disappointed that something so important has achieved so little. Locally the key has been about self
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Does it have legs? Is that some kind of attempt at a pun?
I think Wicksy caught a bit too much sun to come up with that.
Not sure quite how it fits in with either the Human Rights
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