Increasing Awareness of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and DoLS
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Increasing Awareness of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Among Local Care and Nursing Home, and Learning Disability Service Providers, Relevant Person’s Representatives and Unpaid Service User Representatives
IRAS ID
162173
Contact name
Andrew Alonzi
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 9 months, 19 days
Research summary
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and Richmond Clinical Commissioning Group externally funded research project.
The aim of the project is to raise levels of awareness and improve practice around the MCA 2005 and DoLS among defined participant groups and to produce a robust model capable of measuring the impact of training.All participants will be drawn from the LBRuT area:
1. Managers: residential for people with a learning disability, older people's care and nursing home
2. Non-managerial staff: residential for people with a learning disability, older people's care and nursing home
3. Managers: supported living for people with a learning disability, for older people and supported housing for people accessing mental health services
4. Non-managerial staff: supported living for people with a learning disability, for older people and supported housing for people accessing mental health services
5. Relevant Person's Representatives
6. Unpaid service user representatives
The study involves:1. semi-structured focus group interviews based upon a questionnaire
2. training on the MCA 2005 and DoLS, involving a pre-training and post-training questionnaire, course evaluation and equality and diversity questionnaire
3. group learner support for managerial and non-managerial staff
4. telephone survey to identify the impact of trainingThe study is designed to measure:
1. baseline levels of awareness of the MCA 2005 and DoLS (via focus groups interviews and pre-training questionnaire)
2. immediate improvements in levels of awareness as a result of training designed to meet these needs (via post-training questionnaire, course evaluation)
3. longer term improvements in levels of awareness and impact (via telephone survey at 2 months post-training)
4. impact on referrals for capacity assessments and requests for DoLS authorisations (quality measures)The principal outputs are:
1. the design of a model to measure quality outcomes
2. the design and delivery of a programme of training
3. final report evaluating projectREC name
Social Care REC
REC reference
14/IEC08/1016
Date of REC Opinion
10 Oct 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion