How can I find out more about the Mental Capacity Act?
The Department of Health have produced a series of six information booklets called ‘Making Decisions’.
- ‘Making decisions about your health, welfare or finance. Who decides when you can’t?’
- ‘Making decisions: a guide for family, friends and any other unpaid carers’
- ‘Making decisions: a guide for people working in health and social care’
- ‘Making decisions: a guide for advice workers’
- ‘Making decisions: An easyread guide’
- ‘Making decisions: The Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) Service’
- ‘Making decisions about your health, welfare or finance. Who decides when you can’t?’ (leaflet)
The ‘Making decisions about your health, welfare or finance. Who decides when you can’t?’ leaflet is also available in other languages.
Key documents:
- House of Lords Mental Capacity Act 2005: Post-Legislative Scrutiny Report
- HM Government: Valuing every voice, respecting every right: Making the case for the Mental Capacity Act
- Department of Health: Mental Capacity Act 2005 – Valuing every voice, respecting every right: One year on
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) provide a suite of information to include key documents, eLearning, short films, case law and guidance.