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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 14 January 2025
Debate
Mental Health Bill [HL]Contribution
Amendments 6 and 12, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, seek to ensure that care and treatment review meetings, and care (education) and treatment review meetings for children and young people, also identify the needs of the person concerned for housing—something also spoken to by my noble friend Lord Bradley and the noble Baroness, Lady Watkins—and that the review makes recommendations about whether and how these needs can be met. I absolutely agree that housing needs are crucial to supporting people well in their community; but, as has been discussed today, they can equally be a barrier to discharge for some patients and affect how they fare into the future.
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