ADASS advises councils to use streamlined approach for cases triaged as ‘low priority’, with most currently being left unassessed Councils are set to use desktop assessments to complete deprivation of ...

Swansea Council is reducing its backlog of assessments of care home residents who lack mental decision-making capacity partly by re-authorising previous assessments, a meeting heard. Councils have to ...

From April 2013, councils will become the "supervisory body" for deprivation of liberty safeguards (Dols) cases in hospitals. Where hospitals suspect they are depriving a patient of their liberty for ...