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Mental Capacity Act 2005: training materials

During May 2007 the Department of Health, in partnership with the Welsh Assembly Government and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), is publishing five sets of training materials to support the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

The training materials have been produced by the University of Central Lancashire and the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at King’s College, London.

The five sets (a core set, a mental health set, a residential accommodation set, a community care and primary care set and an acute hospitals set) can be downloaded here.

Each set comes in two versions that include hyperlinks to the Act, to the Code of Practice and to other key documents, case studies and exercises. The core set includes a PowerPoint presentation. The larger of the two files for each set features recordings of service users’ and carers quotations that you can click on to hear their words spoken, but these are very large files; the smaller of the two files does not contain that feature, and will be quicker to download.