Consent and Capacity While Supporting Someone with a Learning Disability.

The Legal Framework for Consent and Capacity While Supporting Someone with a Learning Disability.

Aim

To provide an overview of what is meant by capacity and consent and the legal framework for suporting decision making with someone with a learning disability.In the NHS and social care, we must obtain a person’s consent before providing any care or treatment.

About

Consent means a person’s voluntary and informed agreement to receive the proposed care or treatment. This process should begin with a clear explanation of what is being proposed, including its purpose, potential risks and benefits, and any reasonable alternatives. But what does it take to ensure consent is valid — and what key factors should we consider? In this webinar we will exploire

• What is consent ?
• What valid consent requires?
• What happens when someone lacks capacity?
• Legal framework: Mental Capacity Act 2005
• What is a capacity assessment?
• Key principles of a capacity assessment.

About the Estia Centre

By learning together we can create healthier lives for people with a learning disability and autistic adults. We work in partnership to inspire a committed, passionate and competent work-force by providing a wide range of quality-driven, specialist and expert-led, learning, development and research opportunities.

The Estia Centre is a widely acknowledged as a leader in learning and development for teams who support adults with a learning disability and autistic adults who may also have additional mental health and or complex needs. We are a Skills for Care Endorsed provider and a City and Guilds Assured provider of a wide range of development programmes coproduced in partnership with our clinical subject matter experts across South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and with our learning disability and autism subject matter experts. Together we aim to develop the confidence, competence and skills of local, regional and national support for staff and teams through our provision of open courses advertised in our prospectus and via bespoke and tailor-made learning programmes.

Lunch and learn webinars

The Estia Centre are hosting a calendar of monthly informal online lunch and learn learning sessions to complement our portfolio of training courses. Our stand alone 30 or 45-minute lunch and learn webinars are designed to focus on topics relating to the health and health and wellbeing of people with a learning disability, autistic adults, you or your team.

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