The Supreme Court's judgment on deprivation of liberty

You may be aware that the Supreme Court has recently issued a judgment which significantly changes the legal approach to determining whether a person is deprived of their liberty. The judgement can be seen here A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a devolution issue under paragraph 34 o….

We would encourage you to familiarise yourselves with the judgment and carefully consider the implications for your services and practice. Please see the following links for further information: CQC statement on the Supreme Court's judgment on deprivation of liberty - Care Quality Commission and 2026-UKSC-16-Summary-for-website.pdf.

We ask that you refer to this updated position when making any new referrals to the DoLS team.  In addition, as the change came into effect immediately from 2 June, please review any recent DoLS referrals you have made. You should consider whether, in light of this revised approach, any of these referrals may no longer be appropriate.

We hope this offers reassurance whilst we wait for additional National guidance to be disseminated.  At this stage we don’t have further information, but if you have a specific query, you can contact the MCA DoLS Duty Team at Dolforms@essex.gov.uk

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Adult Social Care Services Map

This map is for information purposes only. Before using the map please refer to the 'Important information about the map data' and 'How to use this map' sections below. 

ASC Services Map

Please read the below prior to using the map:

  • The map is intended to give an overview of the care services ECC provides in each district of the county.
  • It is high level information and therefore should not be used in isolation to inform decisions. 
  • By default the data is based on ECC 'active' care packages, those where we have a recorded start date and no end date for a care service. 

Go to page 2 of the report to see the map. The map and data may take a few moments to populate. You can then see use the map in several ways:

  • Hover your mouse cursor over a district to see data relating to that area. To see the district names you may have to move the cursor away from the report window.
  • Click the quadrant (Mid, South East, South West, North, West) to show information for each area
  • Use the drop down filters to show more specific information by client group
  • To compare districts or quadrant to whole county figures, simply click the district / quadrant and a comparison will be shown in the 2 tables to the left of the map.

For any questions in relation to the map please email: MarketPortal@essex.gov.uk 

Last updated: 01/02/2024