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11 May 2009
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The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: a summary Available to Purchase

Simon Bonell
Simon Bonell
Psychiatry of Learning Disabilities, Greenwich CLDT
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Online ISSN: 2042-8332
Print ISSN: 1753-0180
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2009
Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities (2009) 3 (1): 15–17.
https://doi.org/10.1108/17530180200900004

The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards are an extension to the Mental Capacity Act (2005). They provide protection for those who lack capacity to make a decision about residing in a hospital or care home and require a deprivation of their liberty. The following paper is a summary of the safeguards.

Keywords:
Mental Capacity Act; Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Bournewood, Detention
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