Amendments

In April 2024, relevant text amends have been made throughout to reflect the feedback received following a full tri.x legal review. In addition to this, information about use of the ADASS Priority Tool for Deprivation of Liberty Requests was added to Section 5, 'Receiving a Standard Authorisation Request'.

In April 2024, relevant text amends have been made throughout to reflect the feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Procedure.

In April 2024, this chapter has been replaced with an updated version following a full review. This new version reflects feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource section 'Charging and Assessing Financial Resources'.

In April 2024, this new chapter was added to the Specialist Procedures section.

In April 2024, this chapter was reviewed and refreshed, including the addition of several national resources.

In April 2024, relevant text amends have been made throughout to reflect the feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the NHS Continuing Healthcare Procedure.

In April 2024, this chapter was fully reviewed and refreshed.

In April 2024, Section 8, 'Reporting Concerns about a Service Provider' was revised to better reflect the remit of the reablement team.

In April 2024, text amends have been made to Section 1, 'An Introduction to Continuity of Care Arrangements'. These amends have been made to reflect feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the Care Act 2014 Resource chapter 'Continuity of Care when a Person Moves'.

In April 2024, this chapter was added to the Universal Procedures section.

In April 2024, text amends were made to reflect changes made to the chapter 'Financial Assessment'.

In April 2024, relevant text amends have been made throughout to reflect the feedback received following a full tri.x legal review.

In April 2024, Section 6, 'Making a Property and Affairs Deputyship Application' was updated to include more information about notifications, and information about Carer's Card accounts was added to Section 2, 'Identifying Support Needs'.

In April 2024, the Home Office Status, Verification, Enquiries and Checking service email was updated. The guidance 'Supporting Migrants Lacking Mental Capacity in Relation to Immigration Matters' was added to Section 1, Using this Procedure and Further Guidance. A link to the government guidance 'Asylum support' was also added to Section 7, 'Providing Information and Advice'.

In April 2024, a link to the Section 117 Aftercare chapter section on ordinary residence was added.

In April 2024, Section 4, was updated to include information about Section 135 (2).

In April 2024, this chapter was reviewed. As part of this review, the telephone number for iESE was removed as it is no longer valid.

In April 2024, relevant text amends have been made throughout to reflect the feedback received following a full tri.x legal review of the NHS Continuing Healthcare Procedure.

In April 2024, this chapter was fully reviewed and refreshed.

In October 2023, Section 10, Advance Care Planning has been refreshed to include information about the Universal Principles of Advance Care Planning’.

In October 2023, this chapter has been fully reviewed and refreshed. This included adding clarity around state imputability, moving information about Best Interests into the section ‘Applying to the Court’, adding information about the National Deprivation of Liberty Court and adding a new section ‘Challenging a DoLS Authorisation using Section 21A’.

In October 2023, a new section was added ‘Final Demand Guide’. Updated in May 2023, the Final Demand Guide provides basic advice for health and social care workers, describing how they can practically help people with debt and mental health problems.

In October 2023, this chapter was fully reviewed and refreshed.

In October 2023, this chapter has been fully reviewed and refreshed. This has included providing greater clarity on state imputability and adding two new sections: Section 15 ‘Challenging an Authorisation using Section 21A’ and Section 16 ‘The Future of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards’. At the same time, the Liberty Protection Safeguards chapter has been deleted.

In October 2023, the section ‘Ordinary Residence’ was reviewed and refreshed. 

In October 2023, Section 3, Ordinary Residence was updated to reflect the Supreme Court judgement R (Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2023] UKSC 31 and a link to the Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults was added to Section 9, Further Information. At the same time, the Care Programme Approach has been deleted as the CPA has been superseded by the Community Mental Health Framework.

In October 2023, this new chapter has been added to the section ‘Mental Health Resources’.

In October 2023 this chapter has been refreshed throughout and amended to reflect changes to the immigration status requirements for people from EEA countries. 

In October 2023, information about the Caldicott Principles was added to the section ‘Providing Information about a Person or Carer’.

In October 2023, Section 5, Meeting the Urgent Needs of a Person who is not Ordinarily Resident was reviewed and refreshed.

In April 2023, a link has been added in Section 1, Section 117 to the new Section 117 Aftercare chapter

In April 2023, this new chapter has been added to the Mental Health Resources Section