tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327718065135964598.post3486399568296801033..comments2023-08-10T15:02:51.259+01:00Comments on The Small Places: Government responds to the Parliamentary Health Committee's post-legislative scrutiny of DoLSLucy Serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07820866715125284389noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327718065135964598.post-67226739982367486542013-11-11T12:13:53.303+00:002013-11-11T12:13:53.303+00:00Hi there, I concur that there is a general resista...Hi there, I concur that there is a general resistance to the DoLS in many quarters which is coming from people who cannot see the need for people to be able to receive independent scrutiny and review of the restrictions on their liberty which they are subject to in care services. They tend to take a rather fluffy and holdy-handsy approach to care services and professional discretion, and consider that these issues could be dealt with by CQC (an idea which 10 years of failed efforts at regulating these issues has not disproved, and which disregards the complexity of the issues and the role of commissioning). The (valid) critiques of DoLS risk playing into their hands. I also agree that there are far more important problems with the DoLS to be thinking about. But I do think the forms could be simplified!Lucy Serieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07820866715125284389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7327718065135964598.post-67680502248442078502013-11-07T18:31:38.277+00:002013-11-07T18:31:38.277+00:00Compared to the provisions of the Mental Health Ac...Compared to the provisions of the Mental Health Act, DoLS isn't complicated. There are a lot of forms, which when compared to the classical simplicity of the three pieces of paper that sign away someone's liberties under the MHA may look alarming, but the forms are supposed to demonstrate that a deliberate and considered decision has been taken and that evidence of this decision has been shared with the person and their supporters, and we'd all want that I think? The 'DoLS is a bureaucratic nightmare' trope probably began with Richard Jones. Wish he'd pack this up, and there are plenty more serious criticisms to go for and he might do well to consider who echoes the point he makes. My observation is that the people who say this most loudly were generally speaking, not fans of the idea of embedded right for the vulnerable subjects of social policy to begin with and might like to reduce the intolerable requirement of filling in a form when you're infringing their rights quite radically by abolishing the entire regime to be replaced by ... nothing at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com