Description
The updated text will incorporate crucial changes such as:
•the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill, 2019
•the replacement of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLs) with the Liberty Protection Safeguard (LPS) scheme
•changes to contemporary law and policy such as those surrounding working with police and changes to the police powers
•places of safety provisions in the Mental Health Act 1983 made by the Policing and Crime Act of 2017
The new edition will be fully updated and revised to continue to be used as an essential quick-reference guide to law, regulations and good practice for those practicing and studying to undertake Mental Health Act assessments.
Book Information
ISBN 9780335249138
Author Claire Barcham
Format Paperback
Imprint Open University Press
Publisher Open University Press