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The Right to Freedom and Safety: Reform of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards inquiry

Inquiry

It is vital to have mechanisms to ensure that arrangements made for people who lack capacity are in their best interests.

It is also important that resources are, as far as possible, directed to care rather than to legal and bureaucratic processes.

The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) scheme safeguards against the arbitrary deprivation of liberty of people who lack capacity to consent to their care or treatment, such as people living with dementia, people with autism and people with learning disabilities, providing legal authorisation for depriving a person of their liberty in a care home or hospital setting.

However, there is widespread consensus that the scheme is broken.

Government response

Work news

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Scheme safeguarding for people who lack mental capacity is broken
Joint Committee on Human Rights publish the Right to Freedom and Safety: Reform of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards report
29 June 2018
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Reform of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards examined
Joint Committee on Human Rights questions experts on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
20 March 2018
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Reform of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard: Submit your views
Joint Committee on Human Rights calls for evidence on the right to freedom and safety
9 February 2018
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Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: inquiry
Joint Committee on Human Rights launches inquiry into the right to freedom and safety
9 February 2018
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