Daily Archives: 22/07/2010

Liberty rights still ‘being breached’ despite new safeguards

Disabled people are having their human rights breached because legal safeguards introduced to protect them from being wrongly deprived of their liberty have not been properly implemented, according to a new report.
The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), introduced in England and Wales in April 2009, allow care homes and hospitals to obtain legal powers to [...]