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Showing posts with label involuntary treatment. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 8 November 2011

DoLS: Good news day, bad news day

DoLS have been in the news again, one good story and one less good...

Community Care magazine have written a great article on the DoLS, and also produced a guide to the deprivation of liberty safeguards for care homes produced by Community Care magazine, with some help from John Leighton at SCIE.  Roger Hargreaves of the Mental Health Alliance, interviewed for the piece, makes the point that care home managers can't really be expected to operate without a proper definition of deprivation of liberty - hopefully the Cheshire ruling will offer some more clarity.  But I wonder how many care home managers will read it?!  The key task in the longer term and once the case law has settle down a bit, will have to be a revision of the DoLS code of practice.

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