Our work on the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill – update January 2019

Last year we asked our members what they thought about the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill. Self advocates, families, professionals and organisations all agreed on the main points – they were worried about people’s rights, people and their families’ voice being heard and potential conflicts of interest in the proposals. You can see what people said here

Learning Disability England has worked with other organisations and people to keep raising what is important to all our members especially people with Learning Disabilities who might be affected by these changes.  This included making a written submission to the Public Bill committee – you can see ours and all the others here

On 22nd January we were one of a group of organisations who wrote to the Times Newspaper 

Or you can read the letter and an article in the paper if you have a subscription here

Please click for the letter

Please click for the article

More newspapers, TV and radio are doing pieces on this important law. If you have experiences or points you want to share let us know

The full letter is here