Kirklees & Wakefield Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy Service
We provide advocacy services for people within the Kirklees and Wakefield local authority areas who are unable to make decisions about issues such as whether to undergo medical treatment or where they should live.
Who is the service for?
We work with people who are unable to make specific decisions about the following areas (as set out in the Mental Capacity Act 2005):
- serious medical treatment
- accommodation changes that are for more than 28 days in hospital or eight weeks in a care home
- accommodation reviews
- adult protection.
We will usually only be involved if there are no appropriate family or friends that can represent the person. The exception is issues related to adult protection when we may be asked to get involved regardless of whether the individual has family members or friends.
Who can make referrals?
People can be referred to the Service by staff from Kirklees and Wakefield Councils and their health partners including:
- doctors and nurses providing serious medical treatment
- social workers or community psychiatric nurses (CPNs) who are arranging hospital discharges
- social workers, CPNs and care managers who are planning long-term moves
- social workers and care managers who are undertaking adult abuse investigations.
(These people are known as ‘decision-makers’ under the Mental Capacity legislation.)
More information
- Go to the project's own web page: http://www.together-uk.org/imca
- Download their leaflet (pdf, 43KB)
- Download information for referrers (pdf, 64KB)
- Download a referral form (MS Word doc, 220KB)
- Go to the Department for Constitutional Affairs Mental Capacity Act website and get the Code of Practice and other publications
Contact Us
Kirklees & Wakefield Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy Service
21 King Street
Wakefield
WF1 2SR
Tel/Fax: 01924 361050
Email: kirkleeswakefieldimca@together-uk.org