This guideline covers decision-making in people 16 years and over who may lack capacity now or in the future. It aims to help health and social care practitioners support people to make their own decisions where they have the capacity to do so. It also helps practitioners to keep people who lack capacity at the centre of the decision-making process. It includes recommendations on supporting decision-making, advance care planning, assessing mental capacity to make specific decisions at a particular time, and best interests decision-making. The guideline should be read in conjunction with the Mental Capacity Act 2005. It does not cover Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards processes.

This document is designed to assist practitioners to begin to address the needs of consumers of financial service in vulnerable circumstances. It consolidates tips and resources gained throughout the course of the FCA’s research. The pack is geared towards firm employees tasked with the development of a vulnerable customer policy/strategy.

A dementia-friendly financial services charter designed to enable the sector to work towards becoming dementia-friendly. In addition to the charter, the document sets out the expectations for a dementia-friendly financial services sector and provides guidance on the commitments in the charter.

This guidance explains how a person can manage a bank or building society account on another person’s behalf, including on behalf of a person who does not have mental capacity. It describes the circumstances in which this is possible and how it can be done. It also sets out the documents that need to be shown the bank or building society to be able to manage the account. This guidance applies to England and Wales.

The guide provides practical assistance to anyone who supports an individual to make decisions about their finances. It covers the legislation that governs financial decision-making and makes practical suggestions about how to: empower and support an individual with making decisions about their finances; assess an individual’s capacity in relation to financial decision-making in a way which is decision-specific; apply the Mental Capacity Act to an individual’s situation; and enable decision making by individuals wherever possible.

This Act amends the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in relation to procedures with which a person may be deprived of liberty where the person lacks capacity to consent. It includes amendments of authorising of arrangements enabling care and treatment which give rise to a deprivation of liberty; and Section 42 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 code of practice in relation to Deprivation of liberty. The legislation provides for the repeal of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and their replacement with a new scheme called the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS).