12-03-2024 16:35 via communitycare.co.uk

DoLS: older people routinely having rights breached because of failure to tackle ‘huge’ backlog, warns charity

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Older people are routinely having their human rights breached because of a failure to tackle the “huge” Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) backlog and a system in “complete disarray”.
That was the verdict from an Age UK report that warned many people were being unlawfully deprived of their liberty because of the government’s failure to reform DoLS, signifi
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