With Liberty Protection Safeguards due to come into force in April 2022, the Department of Health and Social Care published on 11 June a further six factsheets about the LPS scheme. The factsheets provide an opportunity for ‘applying LPS thinking’ now.
Here’s the latest set of factsheets – you can read our blog on the other factsheets here and here and details of the implementation timeline here.
- Criteria for authorisation
- The appropriate person and independent mental capacity advocates
- The approved mental capacity professional role
- Deprivation of liberty and authorisation of steps necessary for life-sustaining treatment or vital acts (section 4b)
- Authorisations, renewals and reviews
- The right to challenge an authorisation in court
We will keep readers updated.