Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill update
The government’s proposed ‘definition’ of a deprivation of liberty has been rejected by the House of Lords, which this week inserted an alternative description into legislation to replace the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).
Peers overturned the government definition in the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill, and instead backed an amendment tabled by Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Tyler to change the definition. The bill would replace DoLS with a new system – the Liberty Protection Safeguards – for authorising deprivations of liberty in health and social care settings.
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