Interesting! This is the complete(ish) list of amendments to the Mental Health Bill that the Lords will debate on Monday. Not a *single one* addresses the problems with the interface with the Mental Capacity Act, which I explained to the JCHR earlier this month bills.parliament.uk/publications... - ThreadSky

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thesmallplaces.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Interesting! This is the complete(ish) list of amendments to the Mental Health Bill that the Lords will debate on Monday. Not a *single one* addresses the problems with the interface with the Mental Capacity Act, which I explained to the JCHR earlier this month https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/59095/documents/6015

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thesmallplaces.bsky.social•6 days ago

At the risk of sounding a bit trumpety (hopefully not Trumpy) here's the bit where I explained why if you don't address the interface between the MCA and the MHA, people taken 'out' of the MHA could end up detained in the same places under the MCA instead https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/15303/html/

thesmallplaces.bsky.social•6 days ago

Here's a more technical explanation of why https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/137088/pdf/

thesmallplaces.bsky.social•6 days ago

And here's a paper I wrote explaining why the interface is such a gnarly political mess - it's a tangle of stereotypes and stigma at work, which nobody has a neat solution to https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160252724000888#:~:text=The%20Mental%20Capacity%20Act%202005,welfare%2C%20or%20property%20and%20affairs.

thesmallplaces.bsky.social•6 days ago

Which is probably why... even though EVERYONE knows this is a risk for learning disabled people and people with autism, it's not (yet) been addressed in the Bill...

sime50.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hopefully it will is report stage in the lords

thesmallplaces.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes, hopefully so!

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