DCC-i Resource Library · BASW-Approved CPD Provider
We’re DCC-i, a BASW-approved CPD provider for social care and support. The Resource Library brings together practice resources on mental capacity, safeguarding, legal literacy, strengths-based practice and reflective supervision — ready for individual CPD, team learning, supervision preparation and live casework across social work, NHS mental health, adult social care and the wider support workforce.
Approved by the British Association of Social Workers as a CPD training provider.
Handpicked practice resources for social care CPD, mental capacity and strengths-based practice.
A comprehensive, evidence-based resource for forensic mental health social work, featuring audit tools, templates, statutory guidance, and best practice materials. Designed for…
A seven-minute case-law briefing exploring how Oxfordshire County Council v P applies the Supreme Court’s AGNI judgment to deprivation of liberty. It…
A practical infographic helping care providers understand decision-specific capacity, when formal assessment is needed, and what good recording should include.
It happens in busy teams, complex conversations, uncertain decisions and real people’s lives. Browse the library below, or create a free account to save resources, mark them as read and build a CPD trail you can return to.
DCC-i Resource Library
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ToolkitA comprehensive, evidence-based resource for forensic mental health social work, featuring audit tools, templates, statutory guidance, and best practice materials. Designed for practitioners, managers, and teams in secure and community settings. Supports quality assurance, safeguarding, supervision, and compliance with UK legislation.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
OtherA practical special edition helping teams understand the AGNI judgment, review deprivation of liberty practice and strengthen evidence, recording and professional reasoning.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicTen practical prompts to help social workers apply the AGNI judgment through person-centred, rights-based and carefully evidenced practice.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
OtherA practice-facing AMHP refresher with legal updates, case-law prompts, recording guidance and reflection questions for individual or team CPD.
Mental Health & Mental Capacity
ArticleA quick, practical briefing on Principle 1 of the Mental Capacity Act and the difference between assuming capacity and passively presuming it.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
ArticleA practical refresher for Best Interests Assessors, bringing together recent legal developments, practice implications, recording priorities and a short knowledge check.
Mental Health & Mental Capacity
InfographicA quick visual overview of the High Court’s findings on care needs, direct payments and local authority duties in Wales.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicA clear visual case summary showing how the Court of Protection approached capacity, best interests and the least restrictive arrangements for CC.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicA clear visual case summary showing why capacity assessments must focus on the specific decision, relevant information and the support given to the person.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
ArticleA 7-minute practitioner briefing on the Supreme Court judgment in UKSC/2025/0042 and its implications for deprivation of liberty practice after…
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicA practical visual briefing to help practitioners think through informal admission, consent, restrictions and deprivation of liberty.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
ArticleA practitioner briefing on informal mental health admission, consent and Article 5 risk following the Supreme Court shift in deprivation…
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicSix accessible summaries highlighting recurring lessons from recent SARs and national analysis, with clear prompts for strengthening everyday safeguarding practice.
Safeguarding & Self-Neglect
InfographicA clear visual guide to deciding when restrictions require MCA practice, further evidence, safeguarding action, legal authorisation or advice.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicA clear visual case summary showing why capacity must be assessed separately for each decision and based on all relevant circumstances.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicA thought-provoking visual guide to strengthening safeguarding scrutiny, professional curiosity and rights-based practice following the AGNI judgment.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicA clear visual summary of the LV judgment, with practical learning on s.16 reasoning, realistic therapeutic benefit, alternatives and proportionality.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicA practical visual guide to help care providers understand when capacity should be assessed, how people should be supported, and what good recording looks like.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicSix accessible reminders to help practitioners support people to understand, consider and make their own decisions wherever possible.
Mental Health & Mental Capacity
ArticleCan a fact-sensitive judgment change how AGNI should be applied? Examine the legal tension and test your own deprivation of liberty analysis.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicA clear visual case summary showing how the Court of Protection approached capacity, best interests and last-resort treatment for a young woman with severe anorexia.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
![Infographic summarising St George’s NHS Trust v LV [2025] EWCOP 9, including LV’s circumstances, the capacity test, best interests and NG feeding under restraint.](https://dcciportal.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/LV-v-St-Georges-CPD-Briefing-Infographic-1-1024x579.png)
InfographicA visual overview of the AGNI judgment, its legal test and the implications for capacity assessments, care planning, review and rights-based practice.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
ArticleA seven-minute practice briefing on TDB v London Borough of Haringey, exploring the relationship between Care Act assessment, decision-specific mental…
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicA clear visual guide to assessing deprivation of liberty after the 2026 judgment, with practical prompts on restrictions, objection, consent and escalation.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicA clear visual summary of the AGNI case, including the legal test, valid consent, safeguards and what the judgment means for practice.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
InfographicA three-part decision-making guide for exploring what is happening, how it affects the person and which legal or practice pathway may be needed.
Legal Literacy & Professional Practice
ArticleA comprehensive, reflective guide to gender-responsive AMHP practice, bringing together research, legal learning, case law and practical assessment prompts.
Mental Health & Mental Capacity
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It’s a growing collection of CPD resources for social care and support practitioners — briefings, toolkits, case law updates, reflective prompts, frameworks and practice guides. Everything is chosen to be useful in real work: supervision, team learning, individual CPD and live casework.
Social workers, adult social care practitioners, support workers, registered and team managers, supervisors, practice educators, AMHPs, BIAs, mental capacity and safeguarding leads, and NHS mental health and local authority teams. If you work in social care or support, it’s built for you.
Mental capacity and the Mental Capacity Act 2005, safeguarding, best interests and Court of Protection updates, legal literacy, human rights, strengths-based practice, reflective supervision, and complex decision-making across adult social care and mental health.
The Practice Library is currently free to registered users. Create a free account to browse, save resources to My Space and mark them as read.
Yes — DCC-i is approved by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) as a CPD training provider.
Once you’re signed in, mark resources as read to keep a record, and save the ones you want to return to. You can use any resource in supervision, team discussion or your own reflection, and draw on it as evidence of continuing professional development.
