Source · Select Committees · Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 9
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Government fails to halve detentions of autistic people; numbers in mental health settings rise.
Conclusion
The Government has fallen short on its commitment to halve the number of people with a learning disability and autistic people inappropriately detained in mental health hospitals. Promises to bring forward a new Mental Health Bill to help address this concern have gone unmet. Meanwhile, the number of autistic people in mental health settings and exposed to the harm that those settings can present is increasing.
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