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Best interests requirement

Data descriptor

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Digitising Social Care Glossary, v0.0.3

Digitising Social Care

Is the best interests requirement met, i.e. it is in the person's best interests to be deprived of their liberty in this care home or hospital for the purpose of giving the proposed care or treatment, it is necessary to prevent harm to that person, and it is proportionate to the risk and seriousness of that harm.

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