Mental capacity assessment services
Mental Capacity Assessments
Court-ready and decision-specific, across England and Wales.
Court-ready, decision-specific mental capacity assessments across England and Wales, delivered by a permanent, employed multidisciplinary team. Choose the decision you need assessed below.
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From £600 + VAT
Fixed fees
5 working days
Standard turnaround
England and Wales
National coverage
Peer reviewed
Every report
What is a mental capacity assesment?
A mental capacity assessment is a decision-specific and time-specific process used to determine whether a person can make a particular decision for themselves. Under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the assessor considers whether the person can understand, retain, use or weigh the relevant information, and communicate their decision. A person can only be found to lack capacity where an impairment of, or disturbance in, the functioning of the mind or brain causes their inability to decide. It is not a general test of intelligence, memory or diagnosis, and every practicable step must first be taken to support the person to make the decision.
Find Your Mental Capacity Assessment in 60 Seconds
Not sure which assessment you need? Our quick finder helps you identify the right mental capacity assessment for your situation. Answer a few simple questions about the decision type, and we'll recommend the most appropriate service. Or browse all assessment types below.
Money and property
Capacity for financial and property decisions, from managing money to buying, selling or transferring a home.
Capacity to Manage Finances
Independent, decision-specific assessment of capacity to manage money, property and financial affairs.
Capacity to enter into a contract
For entering into a specific contract or agreement, such as a settlement, loan, guarantee or tenancy.
Capacity to buy, sell or transfer property
For a specific property decision, such as selling a home, buying, transferring or gifting.
Capacity for equity release
For a specific equity release or lifetime mortgage decision secured against property.
Capacity to sever a joint tenancy
For changing property ownership from joint tenants to tenants in common.
Wills, gifts and probate
Capacity for making a will, giving a lifetime gift, or providing capacity evidence for probate.
Testamentary capacity assessment
For making or amending a Will, applying the Banks v Goodfellow test.
Statutory will assessment package
Court-ready evidence package for a Court of Protection statutory will application.
PA14 probate capacity assessment
For an executor or applicant who may lack capacity to deal with a grant and administer an estate.
Capacity to Make Lifetime Gifts
For a specific gift or transfer, such as money, property or other substantial lifetime giving.
Court of Protection and attorney
Capacity evidence for Court of Protection applications, deputyship, attorney and trustee decisions.
Capacity to grant a Lasting Power of Attorney
Where the question is making an LPA, not day-to-day finances.
COP3 mental capacity assessment
For Court of Protection deputyship applications.
Capacity to instruct a solicitor
For giving valid instructions to a solicitor on a specific legal matter, not conducting proceedings.
Deputyship discharge capacity assessment
For someone who may have regained capacity, where a deputyship may be discharged, reviewed or varied.
Capacity to Act as a Trustee
For continuing to act as a trustee, assessed against the duties the role requires.
Capacity to Retire as a Trustee
For the decision to step down from a trusteeship, including signing a deed of retirement.
Court of Protection property sale evidence
Best interests, care needs and residence capacity evidence to support a deputy's application to sell a property.
Litigation and disputes
Capacity to take part in legal proceedings, and independent review of an existing capacity report.
Personal injury mental capacity
Decision-specific capacity evidence for personal injury and clinical negligence claims.
Capacity to litigate assessment
For conducting legal proceedings, including the Certificate as to Capacity to Conduct Proceedings.
Critical review of a capacity report
An independent second opinion on an existing third-party mental capacity report.
Health, welfare and personal decisions
Capacity for decisions about care and support, where to live, contact and other personal matters.
Capacity to decide where to live
For a decision about where a person should live, such as home with care or a care home.
Capacity to decide about care and support
For a decision about the care, support or supervision a person receives.
Capacity to Sign a Prenuptial Agreement
For entering a prenuptial agreement, including what it means for both parties.
Capacity to Divorce
For the decision to end a marriage or civil partnership, distinct from conducting the proceedings.
Capacity for Contact
For decisions about contact with a specific person, often where safeguarding concerns exist.
Capacity to Marry
For the decision to marry or enter a civil partnership, including what marriage means.
Capacity for Health and Welfare Decisions
For decisions about health, treatment and personal welfare, assessed decision by decision.
Capacity to Consent to Sexual Relations
For consent to sexual relations, often alongside safeguarding or Court of Protection matters.
Capacity to Use Social Media
For decisions about social media and online contact, including privacy and online risk.
Enhanced and specialist
Assessments for complex, disputed or historical matters that need additional depth.
Retrospective mental capacity
Court-ready opinion on whether a person had capacity for a past decision, from the records.
Enhanced mental capacity assessment
A deeper, multi-layered assessment for complex, high-value or contested cases.
Why Choose Nellie Supports for Your Mental Capacity Assessment
Families want someone kind who explains, professionals want evidence that stands up, and both are why we work the way we do
For families
- An assessment with us is a supportive conversation, not a test to pass or fail, and we take the time the person needs. You can read exactly what happens during a mental capacity assessment before you book.
- Fixed fees from £600 + VAT and a 5 working day standard turnaround, agreed before we start.
- We come to the person, whether at home, in a care home or in hospital, anywhere in England and Wales, with remote assessment where appropriate.
- Our reports are written in plain English and explain the reasoning, not just the conclusion.
- You deal with a permanent, employed team of registered professionals, as opposed to a directory of ad hoc assessors.
For solicitors, deputies and professionals
- More than 11,000 assessments and reports completed, including complex, disputed and court-facing matters.
- COP3s and full capacity reports written with CPR Part 35 and Practice Direction 35 in mind from the outset.
- Every report is peer reviewed before release, with the causative nexus between the impairment and the specific decision evidenced in every conclusion.
- One point of instruction across a multidisciplinary team of social workers, psychologists and mental capacity assessors, matched to the decision in question.
- National coverage, a 5 working day standard turnaround and a named assessor who responds to reasonable clarification questions after delivery.