Secure in-patient services for people with learning disability: is the market serving the user well? Psychiatric Bulletin, June 2008, 32: page 205 – 207.
Abstract: Medium-secure care services developed in England following the Butler report (Home Office & Department of Health and Social Security, 1975). They were established to address the major gap in provision between high-secure and local mental health services. However, the development of special secure services for offenders with a learning disability has largely been neglected (Snowden, 1995). People with learning disability who require secure in-patient care are often placed in remote and costly units because suitable local facilities do not exist. Such placements do not usually accord with user and carer wishes.
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Filed under: 1, Forensic Mental Healthcare, Learning Disabilities, medium secure | Tagged: Learning Disabilities, users, medium secure, forensic, learning difficulties, in-patient, secure services
