Title:

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)

Description:

The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) e-learning programme provides training for qualifying doctors who wish to become DoLS mental health assessors. The training includes a Mental Capacity Act Test of Understanding to ensure trainees have a good knowledge of the MCA before they proceed to the DoLS training. Trainees will also need to complete and pass the DoLS Test of Understanding once they have completed the e-learning training programme. Only when a trainee has successfully completed and passed both the MCA and DoLS test will they be able to generate a certificate, which can be presented to a supervisory body as evidence that they have satisfactorily completed the DoLS training programme.

Created:

17 Nov 2010

Last Major Update:

13 Mar 2015

Keywords:

DoLS, Deprviation of Liberty Safeguards, Mental Health, Mental Capacity Act, MCA, Mental Health Act, MHA