Consultation on the deprivation of liberty safeguards code of practice and regulations
Status: Closed - with response
Open date: 10 September 2007
Close date: 02 December 2007
Responses published: 09 June 2008
This consultation document seeks views on a code of practice and supporting secondary legislation following the introduction of deprivation of liberty safeguards into the Mental Capacity Act 2005 by the Mental Health Act 2007.
Consultation paper
Documents for consultation are below:
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards consultation (PDF 1.12mb 62 pages)
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards consultation (Welsh version) (PDF 0.66mb 58 pages)
- Draft addendum to the Mental Capacity Act code of practice (PDF 0.39mb 81 pages)
- Draft addendum to the Mental Capacity Act code of practice (Welsh version) (PDF 1.46mb 80 pages)
- The assessment regulations (PDF 0.21mb 8 pages)
- The representative regulations (PDF 0.17mb 6 pages)
- Easy Read version (PDF 1.13mb 44 pages)
- Easy Read (Welsh version) (PDF 1.26mb 44 pages)
- Summary of questions (Word 0.05mb 6 pages)
- Easy Read answers booklet (PDF 2.48mb 28 pages)
- Easy Read answers booklet (Welsh version) (PDF 2.55mb 28 pages)
Responses
This post-consultation report, published jointly by the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health, covers the background to the report, a summary of the responses to the report and our conclusions on the consultation.
- Response to consultation (PDF 0.22mb 45 pages)
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