Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
The Social Care Institute has a suite of Mental Capacity Act e-learning courses.
- Supporting People to make their own decisions.
- Making day to day decisions about care and support.
- Best interest decisions about day-to-day care and support.
- Making more complex decisions.
- More complex best interests decision making.
- What to do when there is disagreement.
- Planning for the future.
- Interface between the MCA and MHA.
These courses are free and are available at the SCIE website. Select ‘e-learning’ at the bottom of the page.
SBC promotes e-learning as a useful introduction and refresher training, and effective when applied within blended learning settings. Examples include following up completion of an e-learning course by giving staff the opportunity for skills practice and discussing what they have learnt in supervision.