Department of Health and Social Care -
This draft bill delivers on two government manifesto commitments: to reform the Mental Health Act; and to improve the way that people with a learning disability and autistic people are treated in law. This draft legislation is intended to give effect to the policy approaches outlined in Sir Simon Wessely’s 2018 independent review, Modernising the Mental Health Act. These were subsequently taken forward in the government’s white paper Reforming the Mental Health Act in 2021.