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DoLS

With the indefinite delay to the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS), how can people identify…

LDT Editor Jun 3, 2015

New resources have been launched that aim to aid professionals when they are making deprivation of liberty…

LDT Editor Jan 28, 2015

Applications for use of the deprivation of liberty safeguards have soared, from about 13,000 a year to around…

LDT Editor Sep 8, 2014

The Department of Health has asked the Law Commission to extend its review of mental capacity and detention to…

LDT Editor Sep 3, 2014

The number of completed Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) applications has risen by more than 10% in the…

LDT Editor Aug 1, 2014

The Law Commission has launched a 3-year project to consider how deprivation of liberty should be authorised and…

LDT Editor Jun 25, 2014

Independent mental capacity advocates (IMCAs) are seeing a significant increase in Deprivation of Liberty…

LDT Editor Jun 11, 2014

The government has decided not to scrap the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) despite a recent House of…

LDT Editor Mar 28, 2013

There is still a widespread lack of understanding of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), with the use of restraint a…