Essential Skills
Mental Capacity Act & Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
What the course covers:
- Have an understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- Understand ‘Capacity’
- Understand ‘Best Interest’
- Be able to outline DoLS including restraint and restriction limitations
- Be able to apply to practice
How this course can be completed:
- Classroom: this course can be completed as a half-day course in a classroom environment, which lasts approximately 2.5 learning hours. Often a more time and cost-effective way of completing this is to complete it as a follow up to our Safeguarding People at Risk course, which also lasts approximately 2.5 learning hours.
- Webinar: this course can be completed as part of our Safeguarding People at Risk and Mental Capacity Act & DoLS webinar, which lasts approximately 2.5 learning hours.
- E-Learning: this course can be completed on our online learning platform, Bridge. We estimate the
e-learning course should take no longer than 2 hours to complete.
How to book on to a course:
Creative Support staff – You can find dates for this course on our webinar rota. To book on to a course, please complete an
application form
Participants from other organisations – Please complete this application form or contact James Perkins at:
james.perkins@creativesupport.co.uk // 07972 735 378
How to request a course for your service:
To request an additional course for your service, please complete the Extra Training Request Form. This is an online form. Once submitted, this will be sent to our training coordinators who will be in touch with more information.
