Useful resources about DoLS

Useful websites

The following websites provide useful information about Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS):

• Alzheimer’s Society: information and guidance on the process
• Age UK: useful factsheets
• 39 Essex Chambers: health, welfare and Deprivation of Liberty
• Mental Capacity and Law and Policy
• The Law Society: understanding when someone is deprived of their liberty
• ADASS (director of adult social services): priority tool aimed at councils to respond to DoLS requests
• Voiceability: support people to be heard in decisions about their health, care and wellbeing

Webinars

Watch Deprivation of Liberty webinars by the National Mental Capacity Forum on the Autonomy Project website.