The government is consulting on proposed changes to the MCA Code of Practice and the implementation of the liberty protection safeguards from 17 March to 14 July 2022. The updated impact assessment estimates there will be 279,000 new LPS applications per year. For further details see:

• All the documents (eg draft Code, Regulations, workforce and training strategy, impact assessment): here
• Easy reads: here
• For Wales: here
• How to respond: here