In July 2018, the government published a Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill, which passed into law in May 2019. It replaces the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) with a scheme known as the Liberty Protection Safeguards (although the term is not used in the Bill itself). What is a DoLS inRead More →
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This section applies to all registered care and nursing homes whether in the public, private or charity sector and irrespective of the groups of residents they may care for, such as older people, those with dementia, learning disability or acquired brain injury, and irrespective of how placements are funded. CanRead More →
For example, a care home or staff in a hospital may stop the person from walking around at night or leaving the building, or give them medications that may affect their behaviour. Sometimes, taking away a person’s freedom in this way is defined in law as a ‘deprivation of liberty’.Read More →