ADASS DoLS Priority Tool
/media/mc2hbfka/adass-dols-priority-tool-final-2.docxThis tool (latest version 11 April 2024) was developed after Cheshire West, and has been updated to reflect current practice and priorities.
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This tool (latest version 11 April 2024) was developed after Cheshire West, and has been updated to reflect current practice and priorities.
A statement by WMADASS in relation to today's application to the Supreme Court by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland.
December 2025 Download a pdf version of this newsletter Welcome to the last newsletter of 2025. These newsletters are aimed at those who sign DoLS authorisations. The intention of this newsletter is to keep DoLS signatories /authorisers up to date with practice changes and case law. On 20-22nd October there was an important hearing in the Supreme…
As at November 2025, data work by WM-ADASS has produced: Good data - ensuring that the data we use is accurate, timely, standardised and joined up: relying on published data from reputable sources; operating both manual and automated checks to ensure it's up to date and accurate; using metrics that are universally adopted across the ASC sector;
The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) procedure is designed to protect the rights of someone where the care or treatment received in a hospital or care home means they are, or may become, deprived of their liberty, and they lack mental capacity to consent to those arrangements. Lorraine Currie, WM ADASS Associate, supports the region's DoLS
AI in Adult Social Care: Bridging Two Worlds By Pete Jackson (WM ADASS) and Sandra Simpson, Social Worker and WM ADASS Research Engagement Lead Artificial intelligence is no longer a future concept in adult social care. It is already present — shaping how people live their lives and how professionals carry out their work. Across the West Midlands,…
WM-ADASS is keen to to encourage and support individual local authorities in using the Future Thinking process we have developed, and has produced this toolkit to support the work
The toolkit is about recognising and understanding modern slavery so that we can work together to end modern day slavery, trafficking and exploitation
Last month we joined up with @TSA, @Housing LIN and @TLAP to stage the conference My home, my care, my way. Opportunities arising from the social care reform white paper People at the Heart of Care were central to discussions amongst a diverse audience of housing, social care and technology professionals, alongside people with lived experience and
Meeting needs in the best way
Preventing harm and protecting those at risk
Planning ahead in a changing world