{"id":77,"date":"2014-03-05T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/wccop\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T10:36:10","slug":"1-where-can-i-find-information-about-the-mental-capacity-act-2005","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/wccop\/resources\/1-where-can-i-find-information-about-the-mental-capacity-act-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"1.\tWhere can I find information about the Mental Capacity Act 2005?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) provides a legal framework for making a wide range of decisions on behalf of people who are said to lack mental capacity, or for helping people to plan ahead for a time when they may be unable to make decisions.\u00a0 You can read the Act itself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2005\/9\/contents\">on the Legislation.gov website<\/a>.\u00a0 The MCA applies in England or Wales (Scotland has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/asp\/2000\/4\/contents\">separate legislation on adult incapacity<\/a>, and Northern Ireland is currently drafting new legislation on the subject).<\/p>\n<p>The MCA also has two Codes of Practice \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/+\/http:\/www.dca.gov.uk\/legal-policy\/mental-capacity\/mca-cp.pdf\">one for the main provisions of the MCA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/20130107105354\/http:\/www.dh.gov.uk\/en\/Publicationsandstatistics\/Publications\/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance\/DH_085476\">one on the legal framework for deprivation of liberty under the MCA<\/a> often referred to as the deprivation of liberty safeguards or \u2018DOLS\u2019.\u00a0 These contain a lot of useful and readable information about the MCA and are good place to start.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Ministry of Justice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov.uk\/protecting-the-vulnerable\/mental-capacity-act\">has a webpage on the MCA<\/a>.\u00a0 If you are interested in how the MCA applies in health and social care, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scie.org.uk\/topic\/keyissues\/mentalcapacity\/mentalcapacityact\">Social Care Institute for Excellence<\/a> pages will be useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) provides a legal framework for making a wide range of decisions on behalf of people who are said to lack mental capacity, or for helping people to plan ahead for a time when they may be unable to make decisions.\u00a0 You can read the Act itself on the Legislation.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1346,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/wccop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/wccop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/wccop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/wccop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/wccop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/wccop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/wccop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/156"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/wccop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/wccop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}