By I. Stephanie Boyce2021-05-10T13:12:00+01:00
On 20 April, we responded to the UK government’s White Paper on reforming the Mental Health Act (MHA), welcoming efforts to tackle such a complicated area of law, but cautioning that the UK government must ensure the system works for those it is trying to help.
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The latest response follows a five year inquiry by the UK government to reform the MHA, including the
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White Paper on reforming the MHA was published on 13 January this year and lays out the UK government’s plans for changes to the MHA, which accept the majority of the independent review’s recommendations, and contains questions on areas where the UK government still wants to hear additional opinions.
Disability royal commission hears evidence from Indigenous woman locked away for 20 years
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Melanie was moved into long-term seclusion or isolation where she spent up to 23 hours a day alone.
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After more than 20 years locked away, First Nations woman Melanie has appealed to the disability royal commission for help transitioning back into the community.
Key points: Melanie was kept in seclusion for up to 23 hours a day for eight years
She has been detained for more than 20 years and her advocates want her transitioned into the community
Housing price stimulation only reinforces inequality
February 19, 2021 â 12.05am
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The governmentâs insistence on doing everything possible to stimulate housing prices certainly bolsters its electoral chances but, in the process, it is accentuating and cementing inequality (âHow to stop the house price madnessâ, February 18). Clearly, those homeowners who own their homes outright and have good income are able to help their children enter the housing market.
On the other side, an increasing proportion of low-income households are being locked out of homeownership and are being forced into becoming life-long private renters with all the attendant insecurity and anxiety. Alternatively, they are purchasing homes which they can ill-afford and spending a considerable proportion of their income on servicing the mortgage. According to the ABS, at least a million low-income households were in housing stress (spending more than 30 pe
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An intellectually disabled woman who was locked in seclusion for 23 hours a day for seven years in NSW forensic mental health facilities graffitied the walls with her own blood.
The woman, known by the pseudonym Melanie, was deprived of food and medicine if she misbehaved, and kept by herself in a room with a mattress on the floor and no natural light.
Melanie, a pseudonym, was locked in seclusion for seven years.
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Melanie’s story was revealed as part of the disability royal commission’s examination of the experiences of people with cognitive disabilities in the criminal justice system who are locked in indefinite detention in forensic mental health facilities.