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The case of Re YC raises important learning points for supervisory bodies when processing and issuing standard authorisations under the deprivation of liberty safeguards...

With Liberty Protection Safeguards due to come into force in April 2022, the Department of Health and Social Care published on 11 June a further six factsheets about the LPS scheme...

According to a system letter sent to NHS leaders earlier this month, all health settings now need to implement medical examiner systems for scrutiny of all non-coronial deaths as early as possible in 2021/22, so that all deaths are scrutinised by the end of March 2022...

New consultation seeks views on the proposed legislative provisions governing the appointment and operation of the Commissioner by 5th August 2021...

The Government has recently issued a couple of PPNs that our readers will want to take note of.  The first PPN, PPN 05/21, is a National Procurement Policy Statement. It applies to all contracting authorities – central government bodies, local authorities, universities, and NHS bodies...

In one of the first tribunal cases to emerge from the first national lockdown, an employment tribunal has ruled that an employee had been fairly dismissed for refusing to come into work...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of healthcare and adult social care services in England, and regulates many charities providing these services...

The government has introduced PPN 06/21, 'Taking account of Carbon Reduction Plans in the procurement of major government projects', to align with and support the government's aim of achieving net zero by 2050...

Mr Justice MacDonald has recently given judgment on a case involving the withdrawal of life sustaining treatment and strongly held religious beliefs concerning the sanctity of life...

Readers keen to find out more on the timing of the Mental Health Bill and whether it will be introduced in the 2021-22 Parliamentary session will be interested to read the Department of Health and Social Care’s recent response to a written question...

Good safeguarding practice doesn’t happen by accident – and in the same way abuse and exploitation doesn’t end at the age of 18, and yet many of the services for adults are designed to support only those people with ongoing care and support needs...

Charities that transfer data from the EEA to the United Kingdom may have breathed a small sigh of relief when the EU Commission published draft adequacy decisions for transfers of personal data to the UK earlier this year...