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Andy McNicoll is Community Care’s news editor.

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Adults, Mental Health, Deprivation of liberty

Adult services director: ‘It’s impossible to deal with a ten-fold increase in workload overnight’

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Adults, Mental Health, Deprivation of liberty, Workforce

How one council hopes a dedicated Dols team can help manage surge in cases

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Adults, Mental Health, Deprivation of liberty

Social workers pulled from casework to clear backlog in deprivation of liberty referrals

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Adults, Mental Health, Deprivation of liberty, Workforce

‘Streamlined deprivation of liberty process risks rubber-stamping local authority decisions’

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Court unveils plans to ‘fast track’ deprivation of liberty cases

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Adults

Lack of funding could threaten Care Act reforms, councils warn

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Adults, Mental Health

Call for rethink of ‘flawed’ NHS plan to cut inappropriate learning disability placements

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Mental Health

Submit your questions for DH about the revised Mental Health Act code of practice

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Adults, Workforce, Mental Health

New laws for deprivation of liberty in supported living to be drafted by 2017

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Workforce

‘Let’s put the life back into social work’: updates from #JSWEC day one

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Mental Health

Staffing cuts mooted in plan to plug mental health trust’s £15m funding gap

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Adults, Workforce

Social workers have found shift from local authority to social enterprise ‘liberating’, finds review

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Adults

Anger as users and carers ‘left out’ of planning for NHS learning disability scheme

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Mental Health

Experts warn over heightened suicide risk for mental health patients post-discharge

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Adults, Mental Health

Labour calls for two-year deadline to end inappropriate learning disability hospital placements

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Children, Mental Health

NHS England to ‘urgently’ open more children’s mental health beds

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