Orders granted by type, age, gender across Scotland
The following tables relate to new compulsory measures granted between 1st July and 30th September 2009, compared with previous quarters.
Summary:
The number of new civil orders granted has shown little change over the last four quarters (Figure 1).
There has been a decrease this quarter in the number of new community-based CTOs, from 30 to 28.
Variations of existing hospital-based orders to community-based orders have fallen between quarter 2 and quarter 3 in 2009. There has been a decrease from 71 to 64 (Table 2).
The number of people subject to community CTOs, who are temporarily recalled to hospital, shows an increase, 37 being recalled out of 40 occasions.
Table 4 reports on incidence of people subject to emergency and short-term measures by age and gender. The number of females and males subject to short term detentions has shown virtually no change compared with the last quarter.
The numbers of females subject to emergency detentions have decreased from 273 last quarter to 201 this quarter and in males subject to emergency detention, there has been an decrease from 236 to 224 this quarter.
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 July to September 2009.
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Table 1: Orders granted under criminal proceedings across Scotland, quarterly data
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Table 3: Community-based compulsion orders across Scotland, quarterly data
We are no longer reporting CPSA figures (new orders) quarterly. We shall continue to report numbers of people subject to CPSA orders in our point prevalence tables (Tables 64 and 65 ) and to report annually on new CPSA orders granted across Scotland.
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. These figures include recalls to hospital through use of emergency and short-term orders.
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Table 4: Civil compulsory measures granted by age of person at detention date and gender, 1 April to 30 June 2009
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Notes on the data:
For this quarter (Q3 2009), for new orders granted, we have used figures supplied by the Mental Health Tribunal.
For variations, we have used our own figures.
November 2009
