Member

The CQC report on the Mental Health Act, published last week, told us that Black people are being detained at four times the rate of white people, and that people living in deprived areas are 3.6 times more likely to be detained under the Act than other people. I do not think that this is covered in the impact assessment. The answer to these problems is not to be found in killing people; rather, it is to be found in caring for them.