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A third wave, not a third way? New Labour, human rights and mental health in historical context
- Author:
- CARPENTER Mick
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 8(2), April 2009, pp.215-230.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This historically situated, UK-based review of New Labour's human rights and mental health policy following the 1998 Human Rights Act (HRA) and 2007 Mental Health Act (MHA), draws on Klug's identification of three waves of human rights. These occurred around the American and French Revolutions, after World War II, and following the collapse of state communism in 1989, and the article assesses impacts on mental health policy up to and including the New Labour era. It critiques current equality and rights frameworks in mental health and indicates how they might be brought into closer alignment with third wave principles.
Review of the 1983 Mental Health Act: a response by the Children's Society
- Author:
- UNDERDOWN Angela
- Publisher:
- Children's Society
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Changing mental health services: the politics and policy
- Author:
- BUTLER Tom
- Publisher:
- Chapman and Hall
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 191p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at a range of different strategies which have been used in providing for those with mental illness, from containment in institutions to community care. Examines the origins of these policies and explores the consequences for professionals.
Reforming the Mental Health Act: part II; high risk patients; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health and the Home Secretary by command of Her Majesty December 2000
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- London
White paper setting out detailed proposals to establish a new statutory framework to ensure that those with severe mental disorder get care and treatment to meet their needs and, secondly, that the public is protected from those who may, occasionally, pose a threat to their safety. The proposed changes will affect: local and health authorities; service providers in the statutory, independent and voluntary sectors; and people with mental disorders and their carers. Part 1 of the paper, in a separate volume, presents the legal framework, and Part 2, looks at issues involving high risk patients.
Reforming the Mental Health Act: part I; the new legal framework; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health and the Home Secretary by Command of Her Majesty December 2000
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 68p.
- Place of publication:
- London
White paper setting out detailed proposals to establish a new statutory framework to ensure that those with severe mental disorder get care and treatment to meet their needs and, secondly, that the public is protected from those who may, occasionally, pose a threat to their safety. The proposed changes will affect: local and health authorities; service providers in the statutory, independent and voluntary sectors; and people with mental disorders and their carers. Part 1 of the paper presents the legal framework, and Part 2, in a separate booklet, looks at high risk patients.
Draft Mental Health Bill; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Department of Health by the Secretary by command of Her Majesty June 2002
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 138p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Bill to restate and amend the law relating to mentally disordered persons; and for connected purposes. Contents include: interpretation; examination; assessment; discharge from liability to assessment; further medical treatment and assessment; discharge of orders; mental health tribunal proceedings; ancillary powers; remand; orders and directions; transfer to hospital; applications and references to the mental health tribunal; medical treatment; informal treatment of patients not capable of consenting; power of entry, conveyance and detention; patient representation; nominated persons; mental health advocates; appeals; offences; miscellaneous.