In an update published today (12 June) DHSC has confirmed that the intention is for the new Liberty Protection Safeguards system to come into force … Read More ›
Tag: LPS
The Explanatory Notes to the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act have now been published. They do not go substantively beyond what is set out in the … Read More ›
The full text of the MC(A)A 2019 has now been published, to the relief of all those who were being driven to despair by trying … Read More ›
Inspired (as so often) by Lucy Series, I have added a new LPS resources page on my website to accompany the Cheshire West resources page. … Read More ›
The Parliament website now (11 April) tells us that the very slow motion game of Ping-Pong in the final stages of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) … Read More ›
Ahead of today’s ping-pong stage in the Commons, the Government has published its response to the two reports of the JCHR on LPS. It is … Read More ›
The Government has just (29 March) published its proposed response to the Lords amendments to the LPS. The Government proposes that the Lords definition of … Read More ›
The ping-pong stage of LPS continues, it just having been announced that the Bill will return to Parliament on 2 April, for the House of … Read More ›
The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 (MC(A)A) received Royal Assent on 16 May. When comes into force it will sweep away the (mostly unloved) DoLS … Read More ›
The JCHR has launched an inquiry into the Right to freedom and safety: Reform of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. The Committee is issuing an … Read More ›