The coronavirus pandemic, referred to here as Covid-19, has brought into sharp focus the increasing divergence of devolved legislation and its implementation in the United Kingdom. One such instance is the emergency health and social care legislation and guidance introduced by the United Kingdom Central Government and the devolved Governments of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in response to this pandemic. We provide a summary, comparison and discussion of these proposed and actual changes with a particular focus on the impact on adult social care and safeguarding of the rights of citizens. To begin, a summary and comparison of the relevant changes, or potential changes, to mental health, mental capacity and adult social care law across the four jurisdictions is provided. Next, we critique the suggested and actual changes and in so doing consider the immediate and longer term implications for adult social care, including mental health and mental capacity, at the time of publication.several core themes emerged: concerns around process and scrutiny; concerns about possible changes to the workforce and last, the possible threat on the ability to safeguard human rights. It has been shown that, ordinarily, legislative provisions across the jurisdictions of the UK are different, save for Wales (which shares most of its mental health law provisions with England). Such divergence is also mirrored in the way in which the suggested emergency changes could be implemented. Aside from this, there is also a wider concern about a lack of parity of esteem between social care and health care, a concern which is common to all. What is interesting is that the introduction of CVA 2020 forced a comparison to be made between the four UK nations which also shines a spotlight on how citizens can anticipate receipt of services.

冠状病毒大流行（此处称为 Covid-19）使英国权力下放立法及其实施的日益分歧成为人们关注的焦点。其中一个例子是联合王国中央政府以及威尔士、苏格兰和北爱尔兰的权力下放政府为应对这一流行病而推出的紧急卫生和社会护理立法和指南。我们对这些拟议的和实际的变化进行总结、比较和讨论，特别关注对成人社会关怀和保障公民权利的影响。首先，对四个司法管辖区的心理健康、心理能力和成人社会护理法的相关变化或潜在变化进行总结和比较。接下来，我们批评建议的和实际的变化，并在此过程中考虑对成人社会护理的直接和长期影响，包括心理健康和精神能力，在出版时。出现了几个核心主题：对过程和审查的担忧；担心劳动力可能发生变化，最后担心保障人权的能力可能受到威胁。事实证明，通常情况下，英国各司法管辖区的立法规定是不同的，但威尔士除外（威尔士的大部分精神健康法规定与英格兰相同）。这种分歧也反映在建议的紧急变革的实施方式上。除此之外，人们还更广泛地担心社会保健和医疗保健之间缺乏平等的尊重，这是所有人共同的担忧。 有趣的是，CVA 2020 的推出迫使人们对英国四个国家进行比较，这也凸显了公民如何预期获得服务。