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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Payment system manuals for Residential and Non-Residential Providers

These are the latest versions of the user guides for both the Residential and Non-residential Provider Portals. Please familiarise yourself with them before attempting to access the system for the first time.

If you are a new user to either Portal, before attempting to use either payment system please ensure you have received your token to the system and activated it within 24 hours of receipt.  Any token issued for use with the Non-Residential Payments System requires you to complete system training prior to use.  Please contact the email address to arrange your 1:1 training session: - nrpayments@essex.gov.uk or if you require refresher training.

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Non-residential short training videos
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  3. Submitting an Invoice
  4. Retracting an Invoice
  5. Adding a Note to an invoice
Last updated: 07/10/2024