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Mental Capacity Act Video: The 5 Principles

Created: 9 March 2020

The Mental Capacity Act is based upon 5 fundamental principles. They ensure that people's rights aren't interfered with unnecessarily whist providing the best interests and less restrictive principles for when decisions have to be made by other people.

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