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Old 04-22-2008, 02:19 AM
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Hello I work with people with Learning Disabilities and am finding the...

...new Mental capacity act a? bit of a grey area has anyone found this? I am attending a training course on this subject on weds and was wondering what the grey area's are for people are and hopefully I can report back to you after my course.
Well every thing that applies to supporting adults with Learning disabilities to make choicesand decisions. I train people in our company to use Non-violent crisis intervention and one of the issues I find is that if a person makes a choice to act out or put their dignity at risk then when do we as staff decide that they lack the capacity to make decisions?
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