Practitioner Level
Deprivation of Liberty
Safeguards Programme
Part 3: Putting in into Practice
Please complete this workbook after
attending the face to face part of the course.
Signature of person
when completed
Date
Signature of line
manager/colleague when
discussed and completed
Date
NB: This workbook can count as part of your continuing professional
development for re-registration, if applicable.
“The ultimate test of effective training
is whether it benefits service users”
(Horwath and Morrison 1999 p 292)
By now you should have completed half of the practitioner level Deprivation of
Liberty Safeguards Programme: the ‘Getting Ready to Learn’ workbook and
the three hour face to face course. This ‘Putting it into Practice’ workbook is
designed to give you the opportunity to put into practice some of the material
you covered on the face to face course and to reflect on and enhance your
learning. You should discuss it with a colleague or manager when you have
completed it and keep it as evidence of your application of learning. The final
part of the programme is the impact analysis. We will email you and your
manger three months after the face to face course with some questions about
the impact of the training programme you have attended on your service
users.
‘Reflect on your learning’
When you completed the ‘On the day’ evaluation questionnaire at the end of
the face to face course, you were asked to state 2 areas that you would seek
to improve your practice. What were these?
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Explain what you have done to implement this learning and what impact this
has had on the people you work with.
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Describe any barriers there were to you implementing this learning.
Discuss with your manager/colleague how these can be overcome.
Which, if any, areas you are still unsure of?
Discuss with your manager/colleague how you might address these. Look at
the next steps section at the end of this workbook for ideas.
‘Enhance your Learning: case study’
The Mental Capacity Act Practice Guidance is a case-study-based interactive
guide to the Mental Capacity Act. It is designed to put the law in context by
using a case study to illustrate key learning points. One of the case studies is
about Mary who is 82 years old and has vascular dementia. It follows her
through a difficult period in her life when she has decisions to make in relation
to personal care and health care. One of the case studies is about Peggy who
is 88 years old and has no diagnosed mental disorder but nonetheless is
having difficulty making decisions in relation to personal and health care.
Read Mary’s case study to better understand:
 Who should be the decision maker
 Best interest decisions
 Non-compliance with best interest decisions
 How the Act applies to family and informal carers
 Restraint
 Legal protection under MCA
 The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
 Resolving Disputes
 Best Interest meetings
 Lasting Powers of Attorney
 Helping people who lack capacity to manage their money
 Advance Decisions
Read Peggy’s case study to better understand:
 How to assess capacity
 Who should be the decision maker
 The position of unqualified staff
 How to record decisions
 Best interest decisions
 IMCAs
 Serious medical treatment
Click on the link, choose at least one of these case studies and answer the
questions below:
http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/socialcarehealth/adult-protection/mentalcapacityact/mcapractice-guidance/mca-pg31.htm
Describe the key learning points for you in the case study about Peggy or
Mary.
Explain how you might apply this learning to your work.
Have you identified any new learning needs?
Discuss with your manager/colleague how you might address these. See the
next steps section for ideas.
‘Next Steps’
You have now completed the practitioner level Deprivation of Liberty
Safeguards programme. We will be contacting you and your manager 3
months after the face to face course to ask you some questions about the
impact of the course on your service users.
If you have identified further learning needs whilst completing this workbook,
please discuss how you can address these with your manager or workforce
development team. Some suggestions are listed below.
Social Care Institute for Excellence: www.scie.org.uk
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E-Learning – MCA, Personalisation, Dementia, Risk & restraint, Communication, the
Law, mental health, Inter-agency working….
Social Care TV – challenging behaviour and LD, dementia, end of life care, MCA,
restraint, nutrition, personalisation, prevention, safeguarding, telecare, autism, carers
Good Practice examples – share your good practice ideas and learn from others
Online Portal – easy search facility - get access to social care reports, journal
extracts, book reviews, research briefings, websites
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Management Tools – resources on recruitment, leadership and management, health
and safety, risk assessment, wellbeing at work, involving people who use services
Research database – access to information about current and completed research
Ethics Committee – will look at proposals to undertake research
Social Care Information and Learning Services: www.scils.co.uk
Devon County Council has subscribed to this service and you can use it for free once you
have registered. The registration number is 255DEVN – you can then choose your own
username and password, which you will need every time you use the site.
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Learning Materials – search by keyword or by Award & Unit being studied
Qualifications – guide to content of many health and social care related courses
Personal Development Planner – online record of learning
Newsdesk – regular updates
Discussion boards –variety of topics
Q & A page
Links to Useful Websites
Common Induction Standards – resources and evidence booklets
Devon County Council: www.devon.gov.uk
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MCA Practice Guidance – FAQs
http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/socialcarehealth/adultprotection/mentalcapacityact/mca-practice-guidance.htm
Toolkit – resources on MCA, Best Interest Meetings Guidance, MCA Policy, E-Health
Tracker and lots more
http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/socialcarehealth/adultprotection/mentalcapacityact/mcausefulinfo.htm
Safeguarding Training website
http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/socialcarehealth/scwd/scwd-safeguarding-adults.htm
Course bookings –
https://www.devon.gov.uk/onlinebookings?url=TrainingAdmin%2DDevon/
The Learning Gallery - E-mail: lgallery@devon.gov.uk Telephone: 01392381655
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Variety of mediums - Books, DVDs, videos, CD-roms, journals, training packs
Variety of subjects – dementia, abuse, ageing, diabetes, law, race, religion,
management, person centred planning, anxiety, depression, community care,
nutrition, training, deafness, sociology, carers, BSL, health and safety, moving and
handling, resources for people with a learning disability and many more…..
Department of Health www.dh.gov.uk
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Leaflets, booklets, posters, reports, legislation, statistics - variety of health and
social care related topics
Codes of practice - MCA and DLS
Training packs
Films available at: http://www.youtube.com/user/departmentofhealth
Nursing and Midwifery Council
http://www.nmc-uk.org/Nurses-and-midwives/safeguarding/
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Films – 4 safeguarding films available to watch online, download or order on DVD
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Training Toolkit
Other safeguarding resources
We constantly strive to improve our training to
better protect the people of Devon. We would
love to hear your feedback. Please email us
at: workforcedevelopmentsafeguardingadultsmailbox@devon.gov.uk
The Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation
of Liberty Safeguards Team can be
contacted for individual case advice on
01392-381676.