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  1. Factsheet - How to get care and support (PDF)

    support 10 4.2 Case examples 11 4.3 What happens if I do not meet eligibility criteria? 11 4.4 Mental capacity and the duty to meet needs 12 5 Care and support planning 12 5.1 What your care and support plan ... 2025 How to get care and support Page 3 of 32 11 Information, advice and advocacy 23 11.1 The independent advocacy duty 24 12 Complaints and safeguarding 25 12.1 How to challenge decisions and complain

  2. Deprivation_of_Liberty_Safeguards_Report.pdf

    proper legal process must be followed. However, sometimes, older people and others who lack the mental capacity to consent to their treatment or care in a care home or hospital may need to be deprived of their ... others who lack, or are perceived to lack, mental capacity. It means that this group of people, who by definition often find it difficult or impossible to advocate for themselves, cannot simply have their

  3. FS78 LP Safeguarding older people from abuse and neglect.pdf

    out the enquiry? 14 4.3 The involvement of the person in an enquiry 15 4.4 If the person lacks mental capacity 16 4.5 What is the likely outcome of an enquiry? 17 5 Local authority safeguarding duties 18 ... controlling/coercive behaviour 23 7.3 Can a person be removed from their own home? 24 7.4 Mental Health Act 1983 25 7.5 Mental Capacity Act 2005 26 7.6 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) 26 7.7 The inherent jurisdiction

  4. FS78 Safeguarding order people from abuse and neglect.pdf

    out the enquiry? 12 4.3 The involvement of the person in an enquiry 12 4.4 If the person lacks mental capacity 13 4.5 What is the likely outcome of an enquiry? 14 5 Local authority safeguarding duties 14 ... controlling/coercive behaviour 18 7.3 Can a person be removed from their own home? 19 7.4 Mental Health Act 1983 20 7.5 Mental Capacity Act 2005 20 7.6 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) 21 7.7 The inherent jurisdiction

  5. FS78 Safeguarding older people from abuse and neglect.pdf

    out the enquiry? 12 4.3 The involvement of the person in an enquiry 12 4.4 If the person lacks mental capacity 13 4.5 What is the likely outcome of an enquiry? 14 5 Local authority safeguarding duties 14 ... controlling/coercive behaviour 18 7.3 Can a person be removed from their own home? 19 7.4 Mental Health Act 1983 20 7.5 Mental Capacity Act 2005 20 7.6 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) 21 7.7 The inherent jurisdiction

  6. Factsheet - Safeguarding older people from abuse (PDF)

    out the enquiry? 12 4.3 The involvement of the person in an enquiry 12 4.4 If the person lacks mental capacity 13 4.5 What is the likely outcome of an enquiry? 14 5 Local authority safeguarding duties 14 ... controlling/coercive behaviour 18 7.3 Can a person be removed from their own home? 19 7.4 Mental Health Act 1983 20 7.5 Mental Capacity Act 2005 20 7.6 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) 21 7.7 The inherent jurisdiction

  7. crs_nov17_wills_consultation_response.pdf

    1837, an archaic statute which does not account for modern and sophisticated understanding of mental capacity. The strict rules around the formation of a valid will also restrict many people from exercising ... Article 12 of the CRPD provides for the recognition that persons with disabilities enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others in all aspects of life. In response to the Law Commission’s Consultation

  8. Age UK Response to Evidence to MCA Select Committee - September 2013 (PDF)

    Evidence Submission Select Committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Ref: 2313 September 2013 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational ... established a Select Committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The terms of reference of the inquiry ask the Committee to “consider and report on the Mental Capacity Act 2005”. Age UK is pleased to have

  9. FS22 LP Arranging for someone to make decisions on your behalf.pdf

    people to make decisions about your finances and health and care if you think you may lose the mental capacity to do this in the future. This is usually family members or friends, but it can be a professional ... Power of Attorney (LPA) whilst you still have mental capacity. A deputyship grants similar powers and can be applied for on your behalf if you lose mental capacity and cannot make an LPA. A person can become

  10. Factsheet - Arranging for someone to make decisions on your behalf

    people to make decisions about your finances and health and care if you think you may lose the mental capacity to do this in the future. This is usually family members or friends, but it can be a professional ... Power of Attorney (LPA) whilst you still have mental capacity. A deputyship grants similar powers and can be applied for on your behalf if you lose mental capacity and cannot make an LPA. A person can become

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