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Volume 16, Issue 6
1 December 2008
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Review Article| December 01 2008

What is a Deprivation of Liberty?

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2042-8685
Print ISSN: 1476-9018
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2008
Journal of Integrated Care (2008) 16 (6): 37–38.
https://doi.org/10.1108/14769018200800044

What is the difference between a deprivation of liberty and a restriction upon liberty? This sounds like a question for a lawyer, but it is a one to which staff in health and social care institutions will need to know the answer when the new Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards are implemented in April 2009.

Keywords: Mental capacity, Human rights, Deprivation of liberty
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