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Policy implementation in England: developments to meet the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- CHAPLIN Eddie, O'HARA Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, 1(1), March 2007, pp.7-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article looks at current initiatives to improve mental health care for people with learning disabilities from around England and places them within a policy context. It highlights the areas that still fail to provide a basic care standard, some of which have been reported throughout the media from recent investigations. Where this is the case, the authors outline the response and actions that have been put in place to address these issues. The article focuses on the areas of 'rights', 'inclusion', 'choice' and 'independence'. They argue that there now needs to be cooperation between services that traditionally have not worked together for the benefit of this client group. The traditional views and values of service provides and commissioners will need to be challenged and tuned to the needs of this group of people.
Reforming the Mental Health Act
- Authors:
- LAING Judith, GARRATT Katherine
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Library
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 40
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper discusses the Government's White Paper on Reforming the Mental Health Act 1983, a summary of consultation responses and the Draft Mental Health Bill 2022. The Government's white paper on Reforming the Mental Health Act, published on 13 January 2021, contains wide-ranging proposals to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended in 2007) in England and Wales. This briefing outlines the background to the reforms, some of the main proposals in the white paper and initial reactions. It also outlines the Government's response to a consultation on the white paper proposals details of the draft Mental Health Bill, published in June 2022 and initial reactions to the Bill. The white paper includes a range of proposals to reform the Act as well as to bring about improvements in policy, practice, and service delivery. The overall aim is to bring the law in line with modern mental health care and ensure that patients are involved more closely in decisions about their care and treatment. The draft Bill contains a number of amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983 which would bring in the following changes: autism and learning disability would not be considered to be conditions for which a person could be subject to compulsory treatment under section 3; changes to the criteria for detention by setting out two new tests with a higher risk threshold; a new definition of "appropriate medical treatment" to require that the treatment must have a reasonable prospect of alleviating, or preventing the worsening of, the patient's mental disorder. (Edited publisher abstract)
From strength to strength: report on the first two years of the Mental Health Act Commission service user involvement strategy
- Author:
- SIBLEY Rose
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mental Health Act Commission has adopted the mission statement, 'safeguarding the interests of all people detained under the Mental Health Act'. The Commission's remit is to keep under review the operation of the Mental Health Act 1983 as it relates to detained patients, and to meet with and interview detained patients in private. In furtherance of this remit, the Commission visits mental health service providers regularly in order to check the legality of detention. In addition to the visiting programme, the Commission provides important safeguards to patients who lack capacity or refuse consent to treatment, through the Second Opinion Appointed Doctor Service. In all its work the Commission places an emphasis on equality and human rights.
A clear voice, a clear vision: the advocacy reader
- Editors:
- MULLINS Gillian, WOOD Patrick
- Publisher:
- UK Advocacy Network
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 93p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Advocacy is important to people with a wide range of problems and the experiences of advocacy are reflected in a variety of settings. This report describes some of the most important issues concerned in the establishment and successful running of advocacy projects as well as the principles involved and standards of good practice. Contents include: advocacy and the Mental Health Act; consideration in advocacy provision; advocacy in different situations; running the advocacy project; standing together; employees and volunteers.
The voice of the child: a handbook for professionals
- Editors:
- DAVIE Ronald, UPTON Graham, VARMA Ved
- Publisher:
- Falmer
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Handbook aimed at all professionals working with children. Includes papers on: the law in relation to the wishes and feelings of the child; listening to children in educational contexts; a social work perspective; eliciting children's views - the contribution of psychologists; the voice of the child in mental health practice; learning to listen to children; listening to children with disabilities and special educational needs; listening to and communicating with young children; gender issues; and race and the child's perspective.
Community care: a reader
- Editors:
- BORNAT Joanna, et al
- Publisher:
- Macmillan in association with the Open University
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 346p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains extracts from classic writings on the nature of community, together with new material on topics such as familial obligations, social markets, and case management. In 4 sections: community; care; policy; and practice. Includes papers written from the perspective of: sociology; psychology; social policy; social work; and community activism.