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ADASS provides the following guidance to Councils in their role as the supervisory body for the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. A revised full set of the DoLS forms are now finalised on Gov.UK. These forms should be returned to your Local Authority. Contact your LA for more information.
These changes reflect some of the comments received but more importantly have been reviewed following the AJ v A Local Authority judgement, please see summary.
This judgement places a significant burden on Councils to make sure that those people who are deprived of their liberty in both care homes and hospitals have effective access to the Court of Protection. The judgement made a number of important points summarised below but which should be read in full...