Dols for DS approved

[Lesley25]

Hi
I have been told by via email that a court attendance won’t be required and that Ds’s deprivation of liberty has been concluded and
will be subject to an annual review as set out by the order.

Does anyone know what this means in real terms?

I am due at many hospital appointments where surely i will have to prove that Dols is place for my son, how do I do that? Is there a website they access to check?

In a very simple terms, it means DS can’t just go where he wants on his own. Care should be in the least restrictive way possible, though

I take it this is a Deprivation of Liberty Order from the Court of Protection rather than via the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), so there will be an order.

Thanks @flawlessflipper this makes sense.

DD is under DOLS. Nobody at a hospital has ever asked about it. Sometimes, we get asked who her social worker is. Sometimes, if they are talking to her, as if she is capable of making a complex decision, we’ll
say:

”It’s widely accepted, she doesn’t have mental capacity!”

Actually, a psychiatrist says in every set of DOLS papers, that she doesn’t have capacity, with his reasoning for each step of a complex decision.

Nobody, apart from the DOLS team seems to care about it.

@BlueandWhitePorcelain I’m finding that too as we frequent hospitals for tests.
i still don’t really know why it was important to get now in real life, I know deputyship is important and why , but In my naivety I assumed with DOLs they’d check some sort of legal register to check what I say is the case , in the same way an LPA is, but I haven’t found that at all.