Best Interest Assessments for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding
What the buyer wrote
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards ( known as DoLS) were introduced, as part of the Mental Capacity Act (2005), to provide a legal framework around the deprivation of liberty. They provide legal protection for vulnerable people who are, or may become, deprived of their liberty when placed or residing in a hospital or care home. DoLS require a 'managing authority' ( ie relevant hospital or care home) to seek authorisation from a 'supervisory body', in this case Trafford Council, to be able to deprive someone lawfully of their liberty. The safeguards apply to people aged 18 or over in England and Wales who have a 'mental disorder' and lack the capacity to consent to care or treatment in a hospi…
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- What the buyer calls it
- Best Interest Assessments for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 4 Sep 2016
- Work ends
- 5 Sep 2017
- Kind of work
- Mental health and wellbeing services
Who the buyer named
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