https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/08/23/dols-referral-numbers-hit-new-record-but-practitioners-cut-backlog-and-average-case-timeframes/ Social Work News & Social Care Jobs Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:55:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/08/23/dols-referral-numbers-hit-new-record-but-practitioners-cut-backlog-and-average-case-timeframes/#comment-348020 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:55:55 +0000 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/?p=211057#comment-348020 […] Council Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards teams processed a record 323,870 cases in 2023-24, up 12% on the year before, but 123,790 cases were left incomplete at the year’s end (source: NHS England). […]

]]> https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/08/23/dols-referral-numbers-hit-new-record-but-practitioners-cut-backlog-and-average-case-timeframes/#comment-347517 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:54:41 +0000 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/?p=211057#comment-347517 My father hadn’t been taking medication, wasn’t eating and looked unkept this is only a small snippet there is lots more. The SW said dad was able to make his own decisions and he really wasn’t so left him and he died where he should have been placed where he would be looked after he wasn’t able to make decisions to safeguard himself.

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