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‘Halt new mental health bill until there is a public inquiry into deaths and abuse’
By John Pring on 26th January 2023
Category: Human Rights
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/halt-new-mental-health-bill-until-there-is-a-public-inquiry-into-deaths-and-abuse/
Disabled campaigners are calling on the government to halt its reform of the Mental Health Act until there is a public inquiry into the “appalling failings, abuse and high levels of deaths” in mental health services across England.
They say that no effective reform can be carried out until the “dreadful state of affairs is both investigated and addressed decisively”.
Last week, a report on the draft mental health bill by a joint committee of MPs and peers was described as “seriously flawed and discriminatory” after it failed to call on the government to deliver immediate “root and branch reform”.
The rights-based organisation Liberation is now leading other disabled-led organisations in a demand for a halt to work on the bill until the failings, abuse and deaths are investigated by an independent inquiry.
They point to a series of scandals relating to care in mental health units.
They include an ongoing independent inquiry into 2,000 deaths linked to mental health wards run by Essex Partnership University Trust over a 21-year period.
Among many other scandals, there have been allegations relating to mental health services for teenagers run by the former Huntercombe Group; claims uncovered by a BBC Panorama documentary about abuse at the Edenfield Centre near Manchester; and the deaths of three teenage girls let down by “systemic failings and dangerous and coercive culture and practice” at services run by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust.
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‘Halt new mental health bill until there is a public inquiry into deaths and abuse’
By John Pring on 26th January 2023
Category: Human Rights
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/halt-new-mental-health-bill-until-there-is-a-public-inquiry-into-deaths-and-abuse/
Disabled campaigners are calling on the government to halt its reform of the Mental Health Act until there is a public inquiry into the “appalling failings, abuse and high levels of deaths” in mental health services across England.
They say that no effective reform can be carried out until the “dreadful state of affairs is both investigated and addressed decisively”.
Last week, a report on the draft mental health bill by a joint committee of MPs and peers was described as “seriously flawed and discriminatory” after it failed to call on the government to deliver immediate “root and branch reform”.
The rights-based organisation Liberation is now leading other disabled-led organisations in a demand for a halt to work on the bill until the failings, abuse and deaths are investigated by an independent inquiry.
They point to a series of scandals relating to care in mental health units.
They include an ongoing independent inquiry into 2,000 deaths linked to mental health wards run by Essex Partnership University Trust over a 21-year period.
Among many other scandals, there have been allegations relating to mental health services for teenagers run by the former Huntercombe Group; claims uncovered by a BBC Panorama documentary about abuse at the Edenfield Centre near Manchester; and the deaths of three teenage girls let down by “systemic failings and dangerous and coercive culture and practice” at services run by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust.
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