‘Cinderella’ Service That Is Crying Out For A Prince To Rescue It
Mental health is always the bottom of the heap. Campaigners call it the Cinderella service, but that underestimates the problems. No prince has come and no rescue is in sight. The Government has been promising a new mental health Act since it was elected. But every draft so far has mobilised the mental health charities into concerted opposition. What they want is better treatment, more equitably provided. What the Government appears to want is the right to lock up people with personality disorders in the manner that it held terrorist suspects after 9/11.
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