Explain The 5 Key Principles Of The Mental Capacity Act 2005

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 is designed to protect individuals that lack capacity over the age of 16. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 has a framework of 5 key principles, below I have expanded on what these are and how we apply this to individuals to safeguard vulnerable people we support. It is paramount that these steps are followed and we empower the people we support to make decisions and make choices. Working within the 5 key principles below, we ensure that we take every measure to promote an individuals choices, decisions and life in a way that is safe and works within the framework of safeguarding.

1 – A presumption of capacity.

Every individual has the right to make their own decisions, it must be assumed that a person has capacity,