Our monitoring priorities
Each year, we decide on priorities for monitoring the Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003. We consult on what we should look at and build on our findings from previous years and other parts of our programme, for example visits to services and calls to our advice and information service.
In 2008-09 our monitoring priorities for care and treatment under the 2003 Act were:
- the rights and welfare of people receiving community based compulsory treatment
- overrides of advance statements
We are still receiving very few notifications of advance statements being overridden. However, as we have no way of knowing how many advance statements have been produced we have no way of commenting. - the rights and welfare of younger people
We still have concerns about services for younger people and it is disappointing to see a rise in the number of young people admitted to adult wards, especially young males. - the rights and welfare of people on short-term detention certificates
We will be publishing an additional report from our programme of monitoring visits to people on short-term detention on this site very soon.
Annual reports
- directors introduction
- overview of the Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 introduction
- new orders granted in 2008-09
- total numbers of 2003 Act orders in existence
- monitoring our priority areas
monitoring of priority areas
- overrides of advance statements
- community based compulsory treatment
- services for young people
- additional findings from our monitoring of mental health law
- our overview of the use of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000