Clause 34 - Appointment of independent consultees
Mental Capacity Bill
11:15 am
Mrs Angela Browning (Tiverton and Honiton, Conservative)
That is right, and I say from the experience of having dealt with casework involving adults with mental health problems and autistic
spectrum disorders that when push comes to shove, if the local authority cannot provide the right outcome, particularly in terms of the care package or appropriate housing or rehousing, ultimately things have to go to court to be challenged and decided. Regrettably, that is happening more often.
One looks to those law practices that have a record in successfully taking on social service departments. They often sort matters out before they go to court.
However, that is not how things should be. If the independent advocate or consultee is not the sort of person who at the end of the day will advise—
It being twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock, The Chairman adjourned the Committee without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.
Adjourned till this day at half-past Two o'clock.