Four years after an independent review of the Mental Health Act made numerous recommendations to address the disproportionate number of Black people being detained as a result of the legislation, little has changed.
and gave evidence for the draft bill alongside Mind, says the lack of work on early intervention is concerning. “There should be an enshrined right to [early] treatment,” he says. “Too often patients are turned away when they first come for help. This means they often only enter the system later and by much less comfortable routes ”.
“We need to think carefully about who is perceived as threatening, a danger to themselves and others, and the ways that that perception creates significantly more danger for Black people” Notably, the draft bill does not mention race once and fails to address many of the issues associated with CTOs, which both Mind and ROTA are calling for an end to. “At the policy level, there needs to be an understanding of how institutional racism impacts the Mental Health Act,” Walcott says. “We need to think carefully about who is perceived as threatening, a danger to themselves and others, and the ways that that perception creates significantly more danger for Black people.” Mcleod agrees.
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