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Everyday Decisions:
Supporting Legal Capacity
under the MCA 2005
Prof Rosie Harding
Birmingham Law School
e: r.j.harding@bham.ac.uk
t: @rosiehardinguk
www.legalcapacity.org.uk
 Mental Capacity: the decision-making skills
and competencies of a person. Mental
capacity varies from person to person.
 Legal Capacity: the formal ability to hold and
to exercise rights and duties. Everyone has a
right to legal capacity. Some people need
support to enjoy their legal capacity.
The Everyday Decisions Research
Supported
Decision-
Making
Everyday
Choices
and
Decisions
Good
Practice
Everyday and life choices are
often well supported
Clothes
and
Food
Activities
and
Holidays
Working
and
Learning
Some choices were harder and
less well supported
State
Benefits,
Working,
Avoiding
Sanctions
Housing
Choices and
the ‘Bedroom
Tax’
Talking about
Relationships
and
Friendships
Disabled participants wanted
extra support for some decisions
Medical:
Take a
supporter
Financial:
Easyread
helps
Legal:
Where to
get help?
Care professionals preferred best
interests for ‘important’ decisions
Medical:
Clinical
best
interests
Financial:
Managers,
Deputies
Legal:
Don’t
know how
to help!
Capacity assessments didn’t
always work the way they should
Capacity
Assessment
Not always
decision-
specific
Some people
excluded from
decisions they
could make
with support
Some people
considered to
have mental
capacity when
they needed
more support
What does this research tell us?
 To better support legal capacity through
mental capacity practice we need to:
– Build on positive strategies and good
practice for making everyday and life
choices;
– Get better at supporting more complex
decisions;
– Make sure that the MCA and capacity
assessments are used to support legal
capacity, not to deny it.

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National Mental Capacity Action Day: Dr Rosie Harding

  • 1. Everyday Decisions: Supporting Legal Capacity under the MCA 2005 Prof Rosie Harding Birmingham Law School e: r.j.harding@bham.ac.uk t: @rosiehardinguk
  • 3.  Mental Capacity: the decision-making skills and competencies of a person. Mental capacity varies from person to person.  Legal Capacity: the formal ability to hold and to exercise rights and duties. Everyone has a right to legal capacity. Some people need support to enjoy their legal capacity.
  • 4. The Everyday Decisions Research Supported Decision- Making Everyday Choices and Decisions Good Practice
  • 5. Everyday and life choices are often well supported Clothes and Food Activities and Holidays Working and Learning
  • 6. Some choices were harder and less well supported State Benefits, Working, Avoiding Sanctions Housing Choices and the ‘Bedroom Tax’ Talking about Relationships and Friendships
  • 7. Disabled participants wanted extra support for some decisions Medical: Take a supporter Financial: Easyread helps Legal: Where to get help?
  • 8. Care professionals preferred best interests for ‘important’ decisions Medical: Clinical best interests Financial: Managers, Deputies Legal: Don’t know how to help!
  • 9. Capacity assessments didn’t always work the way they should Capacity Assessment Not always decision- specific Some people excluded from decisions they could make with support Some people considered to have mental capacity when they needed more support
  • 10. What does this research tell us?  To better support legal capacity through mental capacity practice we need to: – Build on positive strategies and good practice for making everyday and life choices; – Get better at supporting more complex decisions; – Make sure that the MCA and capacity assessments are used to support legal capacity, not to deny it.