With the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill a week away from the penultimate stage of its passage through the House of Lords, major concerns about the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) - which the ...

Severely disabled people could be neglected or harmed if the government succeeds in overturning legal protections for them, charities have warned. The Supreme Court has been hearing arguments this ...

The government has ditched controversial plans for care home managers to be responsible for gathering the key information to determine whether their residents should be deprived of their liberty, ...