Overview
Assessment Guidance
Principles: this must include the ‘best interest’ principle.
Legislation and codes of practice: including, but not limited to:
• Liberty Protection Safeguards
• Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Human Rights Act 1998
• Equality Act 2010
• Mental Health Act 1983
• Health and Social Care Act 2012
• Care Act 2014
• Data Protection Act 2018.
Factors: including, but not limited to, fluctuating capacity and time and decision specificity, as well as environment, noise, time of day, coercive/controlling behave from others and so on.
Strategies and skills: these will include effective communication and engagement skills to provide practical support. This may include providing information in different formats, using communication aids, addressing environmental factors, listening, and recognising and
Steps to take: these will include adhering to the principles of the Mental Capacity Act as well as adhering to organisations policies and procedures and include best interest decisions.
Restrictive practice: learners should consider restrictions and restraint. They
should consider practices intended to restrict and restrain individuals as well as
practices that do so inadvertently.
Learners should demonstrate awareness of physical, mechanical, chemical, seclusion, segregation, psychological restraint and the threat of restraint.
Aim
The aim of the unit is to ensure that the learner understands the principles of mental capacity and how they must be applied in practice. They will know about forms of restrictive practice.