Announcement comes as peak advocacy group calls on government to end compulsory seclusion and restraint on wards
Victorian mental health minister James Merlino says those with lived experience of mental illness will be involved in reviewing how compulsory treatment orders are used.Victorian mental health minister James Merlino says those with lived experience of mental illness will be involved in reviewing how compulsory treatment orders are used.
This reflects a recommendation from a royal commission into the state’s mental health system, which found that the intervention of advocacy services may drive down the use of coercive practices. Merlino said the legislation would centre the views and values of Victorians living with mental illness, their families and carers by enshrining in law the vision of the royal commission.
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