You are not, any of you, my mother: what happened to the safeguarding power of entry?

– This paper aims to consider the recent consultation on a new safeguarding power of entry and seeks to provide a critique of the government's conclusions in that regard.

– The paper analyses the report of the consultation exercise and sets it against those of earlier, comparable ones.

– The government's conclusions were supported by only a minority of respondents. A majority of respondents, and an overwhelming majority of health and social care professionals, came to a very different conclusion.

– This is believed to be the first time the government's conclusions have been analysed in this way or placed in their present context.