Increasing Awareness of the MCA 2005: London Borough of Sutton (V2)

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Increasing Awareness of the Mental Capacity Act 2005: An evaluation of the impact of Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards training among providers and partner organisations within the London Borough of Sutton

• IRAS ID

  197873

• Contact name

  Andrew Alonzi

• Contact email

  andrew@andrewalonzi.com

• Sponsor organisation

  Andrew Alonzi Limited

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 6 months, 10 days

• Research summary

  The focus of the research is seven in-depth case studies to measure the longer term impact of MCA 2005 and DoLS training that will be provided to managers and staff of LBS partner organisations between January 2016 and April 2017.

  This is a London Borough of Sutton externally funded research project and all participants will be drawn from the LBS area.

  We will identify seven settings with a moderate to high number / proportion of staff who have received MCA 2005 and DoLS training for the case study research. The key determinant is to identify settings from which sufficient staff have been trained, in order to measure the impact of training meaningfully. For this reason, the third party trainer will supply us with details of which organisations have booked staff onto training, on an ongoing basis.

  Settings are likely to be drawn from, for example: (1) care home, (2) nursing home, (3) supported living arrangement in the community, (4) sheltered accommodation / extra care housing, (5) acute hospital setting, (6) mental health setting, and (7) day care centre.

  The in-depth case studies will be comprised of:

  (a) Interviews with managerial and non-managerial staff who have undergone training
  (b) Less formal interviews with people who use services and their representatives
  (c) Observing staff practice

  We will not commence research at any site until management permission or approval has been given by the organisation with responsibility for the research participants at the site.

  The principal outputs are:

  1. The design of a model to measure quality outcomes.

  2. The development of a legacy self-evaluation toolkit (that will include an audit tool to allow providers to assess recorded mental capacity assessments and best interests decisions).
  
  3. Final report evaluating the project.

• REC name

  Social Care REC

• REC reference

  16/IEC08/0008

• Date of REC Opinion

  4 Feb 2016

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion