Mental capacity & social care · England
Mental Capacity & Social Care Advice
Independent professional guidance when questions about mental capacity are affecting adult social care decisions.
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When mental capacity becomes part of a social care decision
Questions about a person's ability to make their own decisions can arise in many adult social care situations. For families and carers, the language and processes surrounding mental capacity can be particularly difficult to understand.
You may be trying to understand why someone's mental capacity is being questioned, a mental capacity assessment that has taken place, how a decision about care is being made, or how mental capacity relates to wider adult social care planning.
Independent professional guidance
Social Care Answers can help you understand the social care context, make sense of the information you have received and identify issues that may need further discussion with the professionals involved.
We do not provide legal representation or determine whether somebody has capacity. Some situations involving mental capacity can require specialist legal advice, and where an issue goes beyond our professional social care advice service, we will make that clear.
Online Consultation — £125
Up to 60 minutes of independent professional adult social care advice and guidance online.
Make a Free Initial EnquiryKeep your first message brief and do not send medical records or highly sensitive information at this stage.
About our advice
Social Care Answers provides independent professional social care advice and guidance in England. We do not provide legal advice or representation, replace statutory services, or guarantee a particular outcome. Social Care Answers is not an emergency service. If someone is in immediate danger, contact the emergency services.