Orders granted by type, age, gender across Scotland
The following tables relate to new compulsory measures granted between 1st October and 31st December 2008, compared with previous quarters.
Summary:
The number of new civil orders granted has shown little change over the four quarters in 2008 (Figure 1). The numbers of criminal proceedings are too small to display on the graph and are shown in Table 1. There has been a slight increase in the number of new community-based CTOs in the latest quarter. Variations of existing hospital-based orders to community-based orders have seen a sharp increase this quarter from 49 to 71 (Table 2). The number of people subject to community CTOs, who are temporarily recalled to hospital, shows little variation. The same is true for people on community based compulsion orders (Table 3). Table 4 reports on incidence of people subject to emergency and short-term measures by age and gender and is similar to the previous quarter's figures.
Figure 1: Civil compulsory measures granted by type across Scotland by quarter
*includes hospital and community-based orders; figure supplied by the Mental Health Tribunal Scotland for the period Oct - Dec 2008.
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Table 1: Orders granted under criminal proceedings* across Scotland, quarterly data
*Criminal Procedures (Scotland) Act 1995, amended by the Mental Health (Care and Treatment)(Scotland) Act 2003 Part 8
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Table 2: Community-based compulsory treatment orders across Scotland, quarterly data
Note: Where an interim community-based order was followed by a long-term variation to the community, this was counted as one event.
*The figures include recalls to hospital through use of emergency and short-term orders.
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Table 3: Community-based compulsion orders across Scotland, quarterly data
Note: Where an interim community-based order was followed by a long-term variation to the community, this was recorded as one event.
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Table 4: Civil compulsory measures granted by age of person at detention date and gender, 1 Oct to 31 Dec 2008
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Notes on the data:
1. For this quarter (Q4 2008), for new orders granted, we have used figures supplied by the Mental Health Tribunal.
2. For variations of existing hospital-based orders to community-based orders (Table 2 and 3) we have used our own figures.
February 2009
