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Monitoring the use of the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards in 2013/14
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 58
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
This is the fifth annual monitoring report on the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. The report looks back at the first five years of the safeguards implementation and highlights recurring themes; summarises the impact of recent developments such as the House of Lords MCA post-legislative scrutiny committee and Supreme Court judgement; and reviews the use of the safeguards for the year 2013/14. Short case studies and good practice examples are included. Recurring themes identified over the past five years were: low numbers of applications; regional variations in application rates; and variations in practice and training across organisations. The year 2013/14 saw a rise in the number of applications to use the safeguards, with a dramatic rise in Q1 and Q2 of 2014/15. This rapid rise has resulted in a backlog of applications. (Original abstract)