That experience has helped me to understand, on a visceral level, how easily autonomy can be subsumed under the guise of safety, support, and risk management. I notice the gulf between how I descri…| Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection
var pd_tags = new Array;pd_tags["15928354-src"]="poll-oembed-simple"; Two-thirds of councils need to improve on the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), an analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessments have found. The finding from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) came as…| Community Care
By Sandra Preston, 18 August 2025 On 13 August 2025 I went to First Avenue House (the London headquarters of the Court of Protection) for the first time as an observer – rather than as the relative of a Protected Party (as described my blog post here). I had chosen to do so to gainContinue reading "My first experience of being an in-person observer at First Avenue House (London): HHJ Beckley decides on where P should live and receive care"| Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection
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Honestly, we can’t begin to predict now what will happen. The Liberty Protection Safeguards are on hold, in the longest of the long grass. Will they ever happen or is that it now? If not the Liberty Protection Safeguards, might something else energe? Or will others in the future build on the work done so […]| Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science