Mental Health Bill 2024 - Partner communications toolkit – November 2024

This toolkit explains how the new Mental Health Bill addresses the significant changes in attitudes towards mental illness since the original Mental Health Act was passed, recognising outdated laws around the treatment of people in a mental health crisis that are no longer tolerable. The toolkit covers the reforms the Bill will introduce to statutory care and treatment plans, end the use of police and prison cells to place people experiencing a mental health crisis, and end the inappropriate detention of people with autism and learning disabilities.