The white paper contains a collection of proposals regarding reforms for the Mental Health Act, which was put in place during 1983 and last amended in 2007. The aim is to modernise the act, and address various issues that were uncovered in the review “Modernising the Mental Health Act”, which was published in 2018. Many reccomendations from the review have been carried over to the white paper.
You can read the full briefing here.
