The Government has said it ‘agrees in principle' that the current Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) system should be ‘replaced as a matter of pressing urgency'.

But the Government's response to recommendations by the Law Commission – more than a year after the statutory independent body said DoLS were ‘unfit for purpose' and called for them to be scrapped immediately - said only that it would ‘legislate on this issue in due course'.