Abstract

At RECOVERY Assistance Dogs we filled in an Independent Review of the 2007 Mental Health Act by February 28, 2018. The review was about when a person can be admitted, detained, and treated in hospital without their agreement. We made our point that people should have the Human Right to a Fair Trial before they can be locked up against their will. The Law says that only people who are a danger to others or themselves should be detained involuntarily. Yet at the moment people are have to submit to ‘unnecessary detentions’ for being ‘high’, unable to answer the question correctly or other reasons that a Court of Law would dismiss

Highlights

  • At RECOVERY Assistance Dogs we filled in an Independent Review of the 2007 Mental Health Act by February 28, 2018

  • As Mark Brown, newspaper Reporter says “The bill could lay out the provisions for those who wished to refuse treatment, and build new models of consent and care.”

  • Liz Maitland, Director of RAD is longing for “a new covenant that commits the UK to protecting those that are in Mental Health distress and helping them to get the therapy & support in the community to nurture and heal”

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At RECOVERY Assistance Dogs we filled in an Independent Review of the 2007 Mental Health Act by February 28, 2018. COJCNopuyrrigshitn©gH&elenHNeoratlhtchotct are Theresa May Wants to Stop ‘Unnecessary Detentions’ with New Mental Health Act Recovery Assistance Dogs, Leicester, United Kingdon *Corresponding author: Elizabeth Maitland, Recovery Assistance Dogs, Leicester, United Kingdon Submission: March 23, 2018; Published: March 27, 2018

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