Thousands of vulnerable people with dementia and learning disabilities are being unnecessarily detained in hospitals and care homes as the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) are unfit for purpose, the Law Commission has concluded. It said, following the Cheshire West ruling in 2014 which widened the definition of deprivation of liberty, last year 100,000 people…
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