{"id":814,"date":"2013-07-03T09:51:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T09:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adultsocialcareandhealth\/?page_id=814"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:22:52","slug":"useful-mental-capacity-act-tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/independent-living\/mental-capacity\/mental-capacity-act-the-process-for-professionals\/useful-mental-capacity-act-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Mental Capacity Act tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are worried that someone may lack capacity to make a decision you will need to start by completing an assessment. The assessment needs to be completed on CareFirst 6 and there is also a Mental Capacity Assessment form. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scie.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Care Institute for Excellence<\/a> has produced an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scie.org.uk\/mca\/introduction\/mental-capacity-act-2005-at-a-glance\/\" rel=\"noopener\">At a glance guide to the Mental Capacity Act<\/a>, about assessing capacity and making decisions in a person\u2019s best interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are dealing with a service user who has a Power of Attorney, you should use this <a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/sites\/PublicDocs\/AdultSocialCare\/_layouts\/15\/guestaccess.aspx?guestaccesstoken=AGS4Qq1Rd1Cbu5ud8lRD%2fOZlNjF%2f9%2f0iWBMEreSsnGc%3d&amp;docid=0c838200126b44873a3c3c2d84c931a41\" rel=\"noopener\">checklist<\/a> to ensure that correct procedures are followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are worried that someone may lack capacity to make a decision you will need to start by completing an assessment. The assessment needs to be completed on CareFirst 6 and there is also a Mental Capacity Assessment form. \u00a0 The Social Care Institute for Excellence has produced an At a glance guide to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":0,"parent":790,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-814","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 20:28:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46347,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/814\/revisions\/46347"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/adult-social-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}