Liberty Protection Safeguards, DoLS and Mental Capacity Half Day Course

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting your colleagues, young people who are in care, education and other settings. The course aims to provide overview of the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty, explains and examines the process of assessing someone’s mental capacity, explains how to investigate and assess what is in a persons best interest, describes restraint and explored deprivation of liberty. The course outlines protections given by the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• To provide an overview of the Mental Capacity Act, including deprivation of liberty
• Explain how and when to assess someone’s mental capacity
• Explain how to work out what is in a person’s best interests
• Describe how to recognise restraint and deprivation of liberty
• Outline the protections given by the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)