Are you a BIA/DoLS assessor? We need you!
Are you a qualified Best Interest Assessor, S12 approved Psychiatrist or GP with specialist training? Here at Carter Brown, we are looking to recruit a number of the above professionals to complete Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding assessments. BIA and DoLS assessments are currently in very high demand, with referral numbers increasing year on year, so […]
Let’s talk about that DoLS backlog
Studies show that DoLS teams are getting through up to three times more assessments than they were in 2014/15, but the backlog of cases remaining incomplete or never started continues to grow. This is due to the number of new applications dramatically outstripping the number of completed or withdrawn assessments. Despite a rise in the […]
Liberty Protection Safeguards – a new, simpler system
A new, simpler system planned to replace ‘overly complex’ DoLS assessments. Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments, commonly known as DoLS, are carried out on people who do not have the mental capacity to make their own decisions about their care, and have had their liberty deprived in some form. Studies show that DoLS teams are […]
Government issues deprivation of liberty definition in bid to provide clarity
In the latest developments concerning the proposed replacement of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, and in preparation for the amendment’s passage through the Houses of Commons later this month, the government have issued a definition of ‘deprivation of liberty’ in a bid to provide clarity to practitioners. The creation of this definition was the result […]
