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Meeting the challenge. Guide 2: your rights if you are in an Assessment and Treatment unit: supporter version
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- London
Outlines the rights of people with a learning disability in inpatient settings, like Assessment and Treatment units. This guide aims to help supporters understand the rights of people with a learning disability, so that they can get the right services and support to meet their needs. This will help keep them safe, happy and healthy and make sure they know when things are not going the way that they should and are able to take action. The guide sets out the legal framework, outlining the Human Rights Act and the Mental Capacity Act, explains the role of Assessment and Treatment units, describes what good support should look like, and explains what a person should do if they experience abuse. The guide also provides information about leaving the Assessment and Treatment unit, including appealing against detention, and discharge planning. (Edited publisher abstract)