Consultation outcome

Changes that the government wants to make to a law called the Mental Health Act (easy read)

From:
Department of Health and Social Care
Published
13 January 2021
Last updated
10 August 2021 — See all updates
This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Applies to England and Wales

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Changes that the government wants to make to a law called the Mental Health Act: government response (easy read)

PDF, 5.53 MB, 44 pages

Newidiadau y mae’r llywodraeth yn awyddus i’w gwneud i gyfraith o’r enw y Ddeddf Iechyd Meddwl: ymateb y llywodraeth (hawdd ei ddeall)

PDF, 3.93 MB, 44 pages

Detail of outcome

The government hosted a public consultation from 13 January 2021 to 21 April 2021 on a set of proposals to reform the Mental Health Act.

We received over 1,700 responses. This report is the government’s formal response to this consultation.

The Welsh response is currently being translated and will be uploaded as soon as possible.

See the non-easy read version.

Original consultation

Summary

We want to change some things in the Mental Health Act. Please tell us what you think of the changes.

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

We want to change the law on looking after people with mental health problems.

We have come up with some ideas to make the law better for people who are being looked after.

We want you to tell us if you like our ideas or not.

Click on the ‘respond online’ button below to read about our ideas and tell us what you think.

You can also read about them in the document below or in the non-easy read version.

Documents

Changes that the government wants to make to a law called the Mental Health Act (easy read)

MS Word Document, 14.1 MB

Newidiadau mae'r Llywodraeth eisiau eu gwneud i’r Ddeddf Iechyd Meddwl (Hawdd ei ddarllen)

MS Word Document, 14.1 MB

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Updates to this page

Published 13 January 2021
Last updated 10 August 2021 + show all updates

  1. Updated to add the easy read government reponse in Welsh.

  2. Added the government's response to the consultation.

  3. Welsh version added

  4. First published.

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