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This year, Carers Week, is taking place from 5th to 11th June. Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, to highlight the challenges unpaid carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout...
DOLS (deprivation of liberty safeguards) are used to deprive a person of their liberty if they are in a hospital, care home or nursing home. This is because the nature of their care arrangements mean that their freedom needs to be restricted (for example,...
Deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS) are used to deprive a person of their liberty if they are in a hospital, care home or nursing home. The DOLS assessment makes sure that the care being given to a person who lacks capacity is in their best...
The recent case of Hull City Council v KF [2022] EWCOP 33 concerned KF, a 34-year-old woman with a condition of agenesis of the corpus callosum which causes her to have a moderate learning disability. KF’s condition has an impact on her capacity to...
