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==See also==
==See also==
More detail is on the [[Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill]] page.
More detail is on the [[Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill]] page.
==External link==
*{{rsum|Claire Tyler, 'The stormy passage of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill' (The House Magazine, 2/5/19)}}


[[Category:Mental Capacity Act 2005]]
[[Category:Mental Capacity Act 2005]]

Revision as of 12:52, 13 May 2019

The proposals in the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill would replace the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) with Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS).

See also

More detail is on the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill page.

External link

  • Summary of LPS legislation passage through Parliament. Claire Tyler, 'The stormy passage of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill' (The House Magazine, 2/5/19) — In this article Baroness Tyler summarises the history of this legislation, concluding that "much relies on what will be set out in the Code of Practice and in secondary legislation, which will be vital in determining how the new system will work, including the vexed issue of a definition of what does and doesn’t constitute a deprivation of liberty" and that "without proper funding[,] staff resources and training it will fail in practice".