IMCA Resources
IMCAs are instructed as a legal safeguard for people who lack the capacity to make specific decisions. These include decisions about serious medical treatment and long term accommodation.
If you would like to make a referral for yourself or someone else, please complete a referral form by clicking on the link below, and send it to us by email, fax or post:
Please note, there is an Equal Opportunities Checklist included in the referral form.
Address: Total Voice, C/O VoiceAbility, The Old Granary, Westwick, Cambridgeshire, CB24 3AR
Telephone: 0300 222 5704
Email: [email protected]
VoiceAbility Leaflets and Information Sheets
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
- Referral guidance for professionals
- Guidance on ‘who is appropriate to consult’
- Referral and Involvement Flowchart – for Social Work professionals
- Referral and Involvement Flowchart – for Medical professionals
Mental Capacity Act Guidance
Gov.uk
Mental Capacity Act 2005 – Code of Practice
Making decisions: a guide for advice workers
This is an overview of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) for people who give advice as part of their job.
Making decisions: a guide for people who work in health and social care
Making decisions: a guide to the Independent Mental Capacity Advocate service
This guidance explains:
- what advocacy is
- the role of an IMCA
- how the IMCA service works in practice
- who will benefit from the IMCA service
- how to make a referral to the IMCA service
Making decisions about your health, welfare or finances. Who decides when you can’t?
How the Mental Capacity Act 2005 affects you if ever you lose mental capacity.
IMCA Annual Report – 2013-2014
SCIE
- Introduction and Overview
- About the MCA
- What is mental capacity?
- Five principles of the MCA
- Decision-making
- Assessing capacity
- Record keeping
- Best interests principle
- Deprivation of Liberty
- Care planning
- Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA)
Deprivation of Liberty Guidance
Gov.uk
- Deprivation of Liberty briefing
- Deprivation of Liberty guidance and forms
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: Supreme Court Judgments – Information on the implications of 2 Supreme Court judgments from 2014 on the use of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
- Deprivation of Liberty Annual Report – 2013-2014
IMCAs
SCIE – SCIEs IMCA guides cover everything you need to know about IMCAs
What do IMCAs do?
Who should get an IMCA?
IMCAs and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
It includes information for…
- doctors about medical decisions
- people who instruct IMCAs
- commissioners
- health and social care staff
- family and friends
SCIE – MCA and IMCA videos
The film shows the role of the IMCA – which includes communicating with the person who lacks capacity, consulting others and writing a report. It also shows how important the care worker’s knowledge of Mr Robinson, an elderly person with dementia, is for the best interests decision
Guides
Commissioning and monitoring of IMCA services
This good practice guide contains information on issues to consider when reviewing IMCA contracts, a revised example service specification, suggestions for assessing quality, an example engagement protocol and suggested tender requirements.
IMCA involvement in accommodation decisions and care reviews
This guide aims to support the work of local authority and NHS staff who may need to instruct and work with IMCAs in relation to accommodation decisions and care reviews.
IMCA involvement in safeguarding adults
This good practice guide is primarily aimed at professionals who have responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and may be involved in safeguarding adults proceedings. It includes information on who can be represented by IMCA, who and when an IMCA can be instructed, sharing and accessing information and resources.
IMCA and paid relevant person’s representative roles
This practice guidance describes the role of Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (IMCAs) and paid representatives in the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (MCA DOLS).
