Mental health service reform

Services

Deprivation of liberty safeguards: resources

Resources for local authorities to support their roles as supervisory bodies for the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).
Mental Health Heroes: nomination form

This form was for nominating people for the Deputy Prime Minister's Mental Health Heroes Awards, announced on 2 January 2015.

Code of practice: Mental Health Act 1983
- Statutory guidance
- 31 October 2017
- Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018
- Statutory guidance
- 7 December 2021
- Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Act 1983: reference guide
- Guidance
- 26 March 2015
- Department of Health and Social Care
No Health Without Mental Health: a cross-government outcomes strategy
- Guidance
- 2 February 2011
- Department of Health and Social Care
National service framework: mental health
- Guidance
- 10 September 1999
- Department of Health and Social Care

Better care for mental health patients under major reforms
- 6 November 2024
- Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England
- Press release
Update on review into mental health inpatient services
- 30 January 2024
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release
Farming Minister takes part in tractor relay on mental health
- 6 July 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
Call for evidence for new 10-year plan to improve mental health
- 12 April 2022
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release
New law to prevent use of force in mental health settings
- 7 December 2021
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release

Levels of loneliness by local authority in the UK
- 7 April 2021
- Office for National Statistics
- Official statistics
Mental health services and schools link expanded evaluation
- 10 October 2020
- Department for Education
- Research
Independent review of the Mental Health Act: interim report
- 1 May 2018
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Independent report
Thriving at Work: a review of mental health and employers
- 30 November 2017
- Department for Work and Pensions and Department of Health and Social Care
- Research
Mental health services and schools link pilot: evaluation
- 9 February 2017
- Department for Education
- Research

Mental Health Bill: European Convention on Human Rights memorandum
- 14 November 2024
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper
Mental Health Bill 2025: easy read
- 7 November 2024
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper
Mental Health Bill 2025: fact sheet
- 7 November 2024
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper
Government response to the Joint Committee on the draft Mental Health Bill
- 16 April 2024
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper
Draft Mental Health Bill 2022: easy read
- 26 September 2022
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper

Monitoring the Mental Health Act: 2023 to 2024
- 14 March 2025
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Corporate report
Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy service – fifth annual report
- 18 February 2013
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Corporate report