- Type
- award, contract
- Procedure
- Direct award
- Ref. number
- 051790-2026
- Estimated value
- 960,000 GBP
The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) are an amendment to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (the ‘Act’), and provides protection for vulnerable people, in care homes or hospitals who lack capacity to consent to the car…
e or treatment they need. In 2014, following a Supreme Court ruling, the law in relation to DoLS changed, meaning the Act applied to far more people than it had previously, with the number of people subject to DoLS increasing significantly.
In 2019 the law was changed with an amended Mental Capacit
y Act (2019) (MCA). The MCA (amendment) 2019 was to put in place new legislation, the publication of a new code, and regulations under Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS). These changes were originally scheduled to replace the DoLS legislat