Government ditches controversial role for care home managers under Liberty Protection Safeguards – Communitycare.co.uk
Government ditches controversial role for care home managers under Liberty Protection Safeguards Communitycare.co.uk
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Government ditches controversial role for care home managers under Liberty Protection Safeguards Communitycare.co.uk
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019: Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) GOV.UK
I have written this paper as an academic essay for my LLM International & Comparative Disability Law and Policies at Galway University and shared it with Dr Lucy Series who kindly proposed me to publish it on her blog. This version is a shortened one: among others, all explanation about what is England & Wales…
Face-to-face DoLS assessments strongly discouraged in high-risk Covid areas Communitycare.co.uk
Single code of practice planned for Mental Capacity Act and deprivation of liberty Communitycare.co.uk
This guest post from ‘Quiet John’ brings us an account from the front lines of the DoLS in the NHS, with important implications for the operation of the LPS. Introduction The Liberty Protection Safeguards are delayed until 2022; so perhaps those who administer the world of mental incapacity have time to contemplate the failures of…
DoLS practitioners encouraged to carry out face-to-face assessments in updated Covid-19 guidance Communitycare.co.uk
Liberty Protection Safeguards delayed until April 2022 Lexology
CQC warns of risk of unauthorised deprivation of liberty as DoLS reports drop on back of Covid Communitycare.co.uk
TL; DR: where care homes and hospitals are isolating people to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection without that person’s consent, then they are likely to be deprived of their liberty. If the main reason for this is public health – to protect others – then the deprivation of liberty safeguards cannot be used to…