Question follow-through · 9424
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Mental Health Bill will (a) protect and (b) enhance the rights of (i) children and (ii) young people who are (A) detained in and (B) admitted informally t
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Mental Health Bill will (a) protect and (b) enhance the rights of (i) children and (ii) young people who are (A) detained in and (B) admitted informally t
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
The forthcoming Mental Health Bill will strengthen the rights of children and young people, to ensure they are involved in decisions about their care, that they can challenge these decisions and, above all, ensure that they are only detained for treatment...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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