| Heading: |
Mental Capacity: Children |
| Question ID: |
1785056 |
| UIN: |
HL5810 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-14 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4703 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Barran
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| Asking Member handle: |
dianabarran
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@dianabarran
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of children who have received deprivation of liberty orders in the past five years. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-02 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
269 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answer text: |
Depriving a child of their liberty must always be a last resort, but is sometimes necessary to keep that child, and others, safe. A small but growing number of children, often with complex behavioural needs, require a deprivation of liberty order for thei... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |