The Law Commission Proposes To Scrap The Deprivation Of Liberty Safeguards For Protective Care System
The Law Commission and media rhetoric have been very critical of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) which have been … Read more...
Category Archives: Community Care Law
Action For Brain Injury Week – One Mother’s Story
This week is Action for Brain Injury Week (13 – 19 May 2013), an awareness week launched by Headway and … Read more...
The Care Act 2014 | Rhetoric or Reality?
As a former Occupational Therapist, now working with our Community Care Law team as a lawyer, my initial reaction on … Read more...
Why Your Client Will Have To Pay £145k To Qualify For The £72k Cap
Specialist community care law solicitor Cate Searle, has analysed the new rules on the care fees cap and explains how … Read more...
Draining Estates Of Their Value
N.B: Following an announcement made by the Government in July 2015, the main Paying for Care provisions to introduce the £72,000 capital cap, … Read more...
Hospital Discharge: In Reality, It’s Not As Easy As It Was For Ruth’s Mum On The Archers
The Times and the Telegraph both ran stories last weekend about levels of “bedblocking” in England reaching a record high. … Read more...
