Open date: 10 September 2007
Close date: 02 December 2007
Responses published: 09 June 2008
This consultation document seeks views on a code of practice and supporting secondary legislation following the introduction of deprivation of liberty safeguards into the Mental Capacity Act 2005 by the Mental Health Act 2007.
Consultation paper
Documents for consultation are below:
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards consultation [PDF 1.12mb, 62 pages]
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards consultation (Welsh version) [PDF 0.66mb, 58 pages]
- Draft addendum to the Mental Capacity Act code of practice [PDF 0.39mb, 81 pages]
- Draft addendum to the Mental Capacity Act code of practice (Welsh version) [PDF 1.46mb, 80 pages]
- The assessment regulations [PDF 0.21mb, 8 pages]
- The representative regulations [PDF 0.17mb, 6 pages]
- Easy Read version [PDF 1.13mb, 44 pages]
- Easy Read (Welsh version) [PDF 1.26mb, 44 pages]
- Summary of questions [Word 0.05mb, 6 pages]
- Easy Read answers booklet [PDF 2.48mb, 28 pages]
- Easy Read answers booklet (Welsh version) [PDF 2.55mb, 28 pages]
Responses
This post-consultation report, published jointly by the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health, covers the background to the report, a summary of the responses to the report and our conclusions on the consultation.
- Response to consultation [PDF 0.22mb, 45 pages]
Contact details
Further copies of the consultation paper can be obtained by contacting the address below:
Communications Team
Office of the Public Guardian
Archway Tower
2 Junction Road
London
N19 5SZ
Tel: 020 7664 7184
Fax: 020 7664 7165