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Mental Health Act 2025 - how it will change the MHA 1983 and walkthrough: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
Mental Health Act 2025 – how it will change the MHA 1983 and walkthrough

Mental Health Act 2025 – how it will change the MHA 1983 and walkthrough

The Mental Health Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025.  The Act can be found here, and the Explanatory Notes here.  The Act is very difficult to read in isolation, as it is an Act am…

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Good analysis on the rushed review into "overdiagnosis" of MH & neurodivergent conditions Fonagy's PD work & support of SIM, Wesseley's debunked PACE trial are assumed to be paid to deliver what Streeting wants to justify cutting services & welfare benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/h…

Rushed review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergent conditions begins

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessme...

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Very sobering from @HouseofCommons Health & Social Care select committee on community mental health services - "Failure to act risks worsening outcomes, deepening inequalities, and will lead to further preventable harm and tragic loss of life." committees.parliament.uk/pub…
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RESOURCES - "The Mental Health Bill 2025" The next stage of the Bill is @HouseofCommons Report stage on 14th October. We're now at the business end of the Bill's passage through Parliament. mentalhealthcop.wordpress.co…
Mental Health Act 2025

Mental Health Act 2025

The next milestone – ROYAL ASSENT GRANTED 18th DECEMBER 2025 The Parliamentary process is now over – This page will no longer be updated but will be left as an archive. On 7th November …

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If you're stuck in your life, read this: 1.
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The Cycle of Critical Thinking
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The first 24/7 Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre has opened in East London. People with serious mental illness like schizophrenia or bipolar can walk in anytime for support. No referral needed. No appointments. Just support, close to home. ➡️ england.nhs.uk/2025/07/first…
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How to keep your team in Flow
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9 Mindsets Of The Most Successful People
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8 daily habits that make people want to follow you:
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The 4 Modes of Leadership
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Providing position statements to observers to Court of Protection proceedings: vital guidance from Poole J: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
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Your productivity sucks. Let's fix that!!!!
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15 Habits of Top 1% Leaders
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"What you tolerate, you encourage." — Michael Josephson If you’re avoiding hard conversations, you’re inviting chaos. Study this sheet to attack toxic chaos like a boss.
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8 Mental Strategies to Stay Strong Under Pressure
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Reposting this from last year as this issue keeps coming up: why thinking about capacity in the abstract is usually so unhelpful: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
Capacity to consent to having capacity assessed – and why thinking about capacity in the abstract...

Capacity to consent to having capacity assessed – and why thinking about capacity in the abstract...

In response to a question posed by the excellent Zena Bolwig on LinkedIn, an interesting discussion has broken out about whether you need to have capacity to consent to having your capacity assesse…

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The Court of Protection and the ‘slip rule’ – a clarification of the procedures: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
The Court of Protection and the ‘slip rule’ – a clarification of the procedures

The Court of Protection and the ‘slip rule’ – a clarification of the procedures

Rule 5.15 of the Court of Protection Rules provides that: “The court may at any time correct any clerical mistakes in an order or direction or any error arising in an order or direction from any ac…

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HM Government has now formally tabled an amendment for the next stage of the Mental Health Bill which would reverse the below. If successful, police powers under s135/136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 will *NOT* be extended to non-police professionals.
Michael Brown 🌍 (@MentalHealthCop) profile pictureMichael Brown 🌍@MentalHealthCop2 Apr 2025
NEW BLOG - "The 135 / 136 Amendment" My observations on the @UKHouseofLords vote to extend legal powers to remove someone to a Place of Safety beyond the police to a wider group called the "authorised person". mentalhealthcop.wordpress.co…
The 135/136 Amendment

The 135/136 Amendment

It was an eventful night in the UK’s House of Lords on Monday evening and my phone / email has been going all day long today.  Thank goodness I always have *ALL* my notifications turned off! …

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NEW BLOG - "Section 47/49 AWOLs" Sometimes, weird legal questions emerge you hadn't had to think about in +20yrs of working on this stuff. mentalhealthcop.wordpress.co…
Section 47/49 AWOLs

Section 47/49 AWOLs

Here’s one for you: what are the legalities around a section 47/49 MHA patient failing to return from authorised leave? – what power exists to re-detain them and would a warrant be requ…

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