Orders granted by type, age, gender across Scotland
The following tables relate to new compulsory measures granted between 1st January and 31st March 2009, compared with previous quarters.
Summary
The number of new civil orders granted has shown little change over the four quarters (Figure 1). The numbers of criminal proceedings are too small to display on the graph and are shown in Table 1.
For the second quarter in a row there has been a slight increase in the number of new community-based CTOs. In the latest quarter, these have risen from 32 to 39.
Variations of existing hospital-based orders to community-based orders have risen for the second consecutive quarter. Between quarter 4 2008 and quarter 1 2009 there has been an increase from 71 to 80 (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 Jan - Mar 2009.
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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.
Figures published in this table vary slightly from those previously published. This is because, as part of our goal to improve the integrity of the data we publish, we reran this query against the most recent data available and this has resulted in a slightly higher number of recalls than previously stated.
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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 Jan to 31 Mar 2009
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Notes on the data:
For this quarter (Q1 2009), for new orders granted, we have used figures supplied by the Mental Health Tribunal. For variations, we have used our own figures.
May 2009
