CommunityCare | RANt
The finding from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) came as it sounded the alarm over longstanding delays to the implementation of reforms to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the implications of this for the human rights and the care of disabled and older people. SCIE referenced successive governments’ failure to implement the planned replacement for DoLS – the Liberty Protections Safeguards (LPS) – and update the MCA code of practice, which is now almost 20 years old. It also warned that the impending overhaul of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and likely legalisation of assisted dying risked foundering because they were built on the “crumbling” foundation of the MCA.