Understanding and Managing Waits Timescales for DoLS

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) have been flagged as a concern for some councils from CQC assessment. Alongside assessment and support waiting times, DoLS waiting times are a focus of the CQC assurance process and provides indicators in relation to the quality of experience of people requiring care and support from a council and those with more complex needs. The nationally published DoLS annual data collection evidence where waiting lists are longest, and where councils have the highest number of people w...