The Mental Capacity Act – Chairing Best Interest Meetings

Overview

This one-day course will enable senior practitioners to define their role and responsibilities when co-ordinating and chairing MCA Best Interest meetings.

Who is The Mental Capacity Act – Chairing Best Interest Meetings aimed at?

Any professionals who are expected to chair, convene, or oversee best-interest decision meetings.

Course Length

1 day

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:-

• Understand the relevant legal principles when chairing best interest meetings.
• Identify the relevant persons and responsibilities, including the decision maker.
• Understand when a meeting needs to be held, the process and how to record it.
• Understand complex capacity decisions and the threshold for evidence.
• complex competing options and the weighing of benefits and burdens.
• Apply effective dispute de-escalation strategies.
• Understand the threshold for an application to court & mediation.
• Use the relevant forms and processes in your area of practice.
• Understand the relevant case law which supports the best interest meeting process.