DoLS refresher courses: 26.6.25, 16.7.25, 6.11.25 "That's the best refresher session I have ever done (and I have done a fair few!)" (Stephen Down, MCA & LPS Lead, 2025) Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/neil-allen... Local authorities: email [email protected] for group discounts

🚨 Need to reduce your DoLS backlogs? Read our new DoLS Equivalent Assessment Guidance Note which I'll be talking about it at the DoLS authoriser course: 📅 4 July 2025 9.30am-1pm Book your place now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dols-autho... Or 📧 contact: [email protected] for an invoice

Latest CQC's report on monitoring the Mental Health Act for the year 2023-2024: www.cqc.org.uk/publications... “We remain concerned that clinicians may not always be considering where the MHA can be used when the DoLS framework is not appropriate and where the patient is objecting.."

'Ending coercion in mental health care, 12-13 June 2025, Colchester': this year's Summer School looks great and registration is now open -

Back by popular demand: MCA 2005 Necessity and Proportionality Online Training - 9.30-12.30pm on 5 March 2025. Tickets available here:

Important and helpful judicial clarity on the clinical concept of “insight” and the legal concept of “capacity”: CT v London Borough of Lambeth & Anor [2025] EWCOP 6 (T3) (12 February 2025)

Personal plea for legal clarity: please can we stop referring to “decisional capacity” and “executive capacity” in SARs, coroner’s reports etc. If someone cannot “use”, or perhaps “retain”, information at the material time, refer to that instead as per MCA 2005. Thanks!

This is how an amended MHA 1983 might look: bills.parliament.uk/publications...

Why not treat yourself for Christmas and spend a day with me 🎅🏽😂; you’ll get a 6-hour certificate in return: https://buff.ly/49OEBCA