This training handbook covers a full range of aspects and processes relating to mental capacity and deprivation of liberty, including best interests, independent mental capacity advocacy, advance decisions, lasting power of attorney.

This flowchart describes the process of assessing capacity and best interests decision making for health and social care interventions.

Mental Capacity Act 2005: assessment of capacity form

A social worker describes two cases in which people were assumed to lack capacity,
and how that risks the person’s wishes being overridden.