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Draft Mental Health Bill 2004 - Easy read version

  • Document type:
    Publication
  • Author:
    Written, designed and produced for the Department of Health by the 'easy read' service @ Community Living with the help of Action Unlimited
  • Published date:
    8 September 2004
  • Primary audience:
    Public,Disabled people
  • Product number:
    40299
  • Gateway reference:
    2004
  • Pages:
    34
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

This paper is about the draft Mental Health Bill published in September 2004. It has been written to help people understand the Bill.

About this paper

This paper was written with the help of people with learning difficulties.You will need to read the full Bill if you need to get all the information.There is a list of 'What the Words Mean' at the back of the paper. There is also information about where you can get other papers from.The Mental Health Bill is a legal document and quite difficult to understand, which is why this paper has been written. The Bill is divided up into different parts and each part can also have several bits to it. This paper looks at each part later but we start with some information about the Bill and why it has been written.

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