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News round-up: Restraint, mental health, early deaths, poverty, and PIP back-payments

By John Pring on 13th February 2020 Category: Education

News round-up: Restraint, mental health, early deaths, poverty, and PIP back-payments
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The human rights watchdog has launched an inquiry into how schools are monitoring the use of restraint on their pupils. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry will discover whether primary, secondary and special schools in England and Wales are […]

Mental Health Act review ‘falls significantly short on human rights’

By John Pring on 6th December 2018 Category: Human Rights

Mental Health Act review ‘falls significantly short on human rights’
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A government-commissioned review* set up to modernise the Mental Health Act has been criticised for falling “significantly short” of recommending full human rights for people in mental distress. The review, published today (Thursday), includes 154 recommendations for improvements to the Mental […]

Fresh concerns from user-led network over mental health review

By John Pring on 22nd November 2018 Category: Human Rights

Fresh concerns from user-led network over mental health review
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A user-led network has raised new concerns about the approach being taken by those leading a review of a key piece of mental health legislation on behalf of the government, just weeks before they are due to publish their recommendations. The […]

Lib Dem conference: Members vote for rights-based reform to mental health laws

By John Pring on 20th September 2018 Category: Human Rights

Lib Dem conference: Members vote for rights-based reform to mental health laws
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Liberal Democrats have called for an end to “discriminatory” laws that allow people with mental health conditions or learning difficulties who have capacity to make their own decisions to be detained against their will. Current mental health legislation means that a […]

User-led alliance set to raise concerns for second time with Mental Health Act Review

By John Pring on 16th August 2018 Category: Human Rights

User-led alliance set to raise concerns for second time with Mental Health Act Review
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User-led groups and service-users are set to raise grave concerns about the work of the team reviewing mental health laws on behalf of the government, including its refusal to take a “full human rights-based approach” to reform. An alliance of user-led […]

General Election 2017: Tory mental health plans greeted with accusations of ‘hypocrisy’

By John Pring on 11th May 2017 Category: Human Rights

General Election 2017: Tory mental health plans greeted with accusations of ‘hypocrisy’
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Two user-led groups have accused the Conservative party of “hypocrisy” after it promised to end the “burning injustices” facing mental health service-users. Both groups pointed out that Conservative social security policies, including the coercion and bullying of benefit claimants, had created […]

Mother pleads for help in ending autistic son’s seven-year incarceration

By John Pring on 24th November 2016 Category: Human Rights

Mother pleads for help in ending autistic son’s seven-year incarceration
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Disabled activists and academics have called for the release of an autistic man with learning difficulties who has been held in locked mental health institutions for seven years, against his and his family’s wishes. The case of Eden Norris (pictured, with […]

Mental health laws are ‘intrinsically discriminatory’, says Perkins

By John Pring on 10th November 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Mental health laws are ‘intrinsically discriminatory’, says Perkins
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Urgent action is needed to address the plight of tens of thousands of mental health service-users who are subjected to detention and compulsory treatment under “intrinsically discriminatory” legislation, according to a leading disabled expert. Dr Rachel Perkins pointed to figures which […]

Mental health survivor’s shock at MBE

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Mental health survivor’s shock at MBE
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A mental health service-user who has been sectioned more than 30 times in the last 20 years has spoken of her shock at being recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours. Jan Rogers, who receives an MBE, believes the award came as […]

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