Local Authority DoLs funding – additional 2015/16 grant – analysis of DoLS spend

Following the March 2014 Supreme Court judgment in the case of ‘Cheshire West’ clarified an ‘acid test’ used to determine whether someone should be assessed under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) scheme, the Department of Health provided a oneoff contribution of £25m in July 2015 to local authorities to support their DoLS work. This document reports on how local authorities spent/intend to spend their allocation.