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NHS admits to Canary it doesn't know how many disabled people it detains under Mental Health Act

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The NHS is still spectacularly failing to end its shameful institutionalisation of learning disabled and autistic people via the 1983 Mental Health Act (MHA). That is, nearly ten years on from its initial promises to vastly scale back the practice and shift to a model of supported living in the community, it’s still detaining learning disabled and autistic people at an appalling rate. To make matters worse, learning disabled and autistic people …

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NHS admits to Canary it doesn't know how many disabled people it detains under Mental Health Act

The NHS is still spectacularly failing to end its shameful institutionalisation of learning disabled and autistic people via the 1983 Mental Health Act (MHA). That is, nearly ten years on from its initial promises to vastly scale back the practice and shift to a model of supported living in the community, it’s still detaining learning disabled and autistic people at an appalling rate. To make matters worse, learning disabled and autistic people …

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NHS admits to Canary it doesn’t know how many disabled people it detains under Mental Health Act

submitted by Garibaldee to uk_politics13 points | 0 commentshttps://www.thecanary.co/long-read/2025/02/10/nhs-disabled-people-mental-health-act/ The NHS is still spectacularly failing to end its shameful institutionalisation of learning disabled and autistic people via the 1983 Mental Health Act (MHA). That is, nearly ten years on from its initial promises to vastly scale back the practice and shift to a model of supported living in the communit…

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The Canary broke the news in United Kingdom on Monday, February 10, 2025.
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