THE MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND

Publication Date: 02/12/2009

The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland has published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2008-09.  The document provides an overview of their work to safeguard some of Scotland's most vulnerable people.

This includes details of Commission visits to mental health and learning disability service users; provision of expert and advice and promotion of best ethical, legal and professional practice; investigations into deficiencies in the care and treatment of individuals with a mental illness, learning disability, dementia or other mental disorder.
 
You can download the Annual Report and Accounts here.

This year for the first time the Commission has moved to online only presentation of data and analysis from its annual monitoring of mental health and incapacity law.  You will find key annual monitoring data, alongside reports from a range of other monitoring programmes at their ReportsHub.

The Commission's key concerns this year include:

- The increasing use of welfare guardianship orders for young people under the age of 25 Emerging differences in the use of mental health legislation for men and women, and

- Continued admission of young people with a mental illness to non-specialist services.