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Why isn't guardianship more popular in Scotland?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Anne E. Weatherhead
Anne E. Weatherhead*
Affiliation:
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, 25 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh EH3 7RB
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Guardianship can offer a measure of control and support in the community to individuals suffering from any type of mental disorder, be it mental illness or mental handicap, yet there were only 14 new guardianship cases in Scotland in 1989, compared with 3,604 episodes of detention under the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 (MWC Annual Report 1989), and out of an estimated total of mentally disordered people in Scotland of more than half a million (Titterton, personal communication).

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 6 , June 1991 , pp. 341 - 343
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References

Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984. HMSO.Google Scholar
SHHD Notes on the Act. HMSO.Google Scholar
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland Annual Reports 1987 and 1989. HMSO.Google Scholar
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