Involvement
Around two-thirds of the people we met in rehabilitation and continuing care wards said they had been offered advocacy services; these included 73 people subject to detention under the Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) 2003 Act and 56 who were being treated informally.
More than three-quarters of the former group, but less than two-thirds of the latter, said they had been offered advocacy. Some who said they had not been offered advocacy may have forgotten that they actually had at some point.
All people with mental disorder have a right of access to advocacy under Section 259 of 2003 Act. The requirement for mental health officers to inform detained individuals of availability of advocacy services, may account for this improvement for people who are detained. It is important to ensure that all others are periodically advised of their right to access advocacy.
"Do you think that I could see one of them?"
was a question we received from a person who said they had never heard of advocacy before our interview.
Visit and monitoring reports
- Mental health of prisoners
- Left Behind
- Lives less restricted
- Focussed visit report 2010/11
- Not properly authorised
- Decisions for Dignity
- A Home of My Own
- A Question of Balance
- Half year statistics
- Care and treatment in adult acute wards
- Learning Disability Census 2010
- Where do I go from here?
- Greater expectations revisited report
- About this report
- What people told us and what we found
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Young people in mental health services
- Rights, recovery and restriction report
- Supervision and support of private guardians
- Young people and welfare guardianship
- Care and treatment for people on short term detention
- Remember I'm Still Me
- Learning Disability Census 2008
- A Hospital or a Home
- Older and wiser
- Respect for diversity
- Missed opportunities
- Unnanounced visit report 2005
- Greater Expectations