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Department of Health and Social Care releases Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, England, 2024 to 2025 Statistics

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The Department of Health and Social Care has released statistics for the 2024–25 period on the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) for England, revealing a 9.8% surge in applications to a record 364,900 . The proportion of DoLS applications which have an urgent authorisation attached was 58%.

The data shows that while local authorities processed 9.3% more cases than the previous year, over half (50.3%) were closed without any formal assessment.



The Welsh government statistics are also now available. These show that there has been a 10% (1,165) increase in applications to local authorities and a 23% (1,739) increase in applications to health boards in 2024-2025. There has also been an increase in the number of assessments completed, with local authorities carrying out 862 assessments, a 15% rise, and health boards completing 3,048 assessments.


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