Adults with Incapacity
Apply the Adults with Incapacity Act principles to the care you provide. This half-day course helps your team support people with a mental health condition or living with dementia to make informed choices.
About the course
Put the AWI Act principles into everyday care
This course explains what the Adults with Incapacity Act is, why it matters and who it affects. Your team learns how to identify a lack of capacity, assess it correctly, and support informed choices while respecting boundaries. By the end of the course, delegates will:
- Be aware of the key facts and statistics surrounding mental capacity
- Know what the AWI is, why it’s important and who it affects
- Know how to identify someone with a lack of capacity
- Be aware of the key legislation surrounding mental capacity
- Know the boundaries involved when caring for someone with a lack of capacity
- Recognise how to help individuals make informed choices
- Know how to risk assess a person’s choices
- Know the 5 key principles of the AWI Act
- Know how and when to assess capacity
- Recognise your responsibility when caring for those lacking capacity
What you’ll cover
Full course content
Seven areas guide your team from the fundamentals of the Act through to capacity assessment, restraint and everyday responsibilities.
Introduction to Adults with Incapacity
- Facts and statistics
- Why was the Act introduced?
- Causes of lack of capacity
- Types of lack of capacity
Legislation
- Human Rights Act
- Power of Attorney
- Guardianship
- Mental Health Act (Scotland)
Five Key Principles of the AWI Act
- Principle 1 — Benefit
- Principle 2 — Least restrictive option
- Principle 3 — Take account of the wishes of the person
- Principle 4 — Consultation with relevant others
- Principle 5 — Encourage the person to use existing skills and develop new skills
Decisions and Choices
- Informed choices
- Risk assess choices
- Everyday decisions
- Complex decisions
Capacity Assessment
- Who can assess capacity?
- How is mental capacity assessed?
- Assessing capacity continuously
- Assessment of capacity case study — Mavis
Restraint and Restriction
- Restraint
- Restriction
- Restriction case study — Ben
- Care plans
Roles and Responsibilities
- Employers
- Employees
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We bring Adults with Incapacity training to your care home
Delivered on-site at your service, nationwide, with pricing on application. Tell us your dates and delegate numbers and we’ll reply quickly with a quote.
Part of our mandatory training range. Also explore clinical training and first aid courses.