Social Care Online from SCIE
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Term information
Term: secure units
Term details for 'secure units'
Acute units for highly disturbed patients, at risk of harming themselves or others. For Secure Children's Homes, use "secure accommodation".
- Broader terms
- custodial institutions
- Narrower terms
- medium secure units
- Related terms
- mental health problems, secure accommodation
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