Correspondence
Liberty Protection Safeguards: delay to implementation
DHSC has written to the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) national steering group to announce that the aim to implement the LPS by April 2022 cannot be met.
Applies to England and Wales
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The LPS were introduced by the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019. It will be the system that will authorise arrangements amounting to a deprivation of liberty in order to provide care or treatment to an individual who lacks the relevant mental capacity to consent to those arrangements, in England and Wales.
The LPS were due to be implemented by April 2022, but this aim is now unfeasible. This letter sets out the reasons for the delay.
Published 17 December 2021