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News Type: Legislation, consultations, and inquiries

Open letter on self-harm and the Online Safety Bill: A call for caution, nuance, and care

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Content note: This letter discusses both self-harm and suicide, including methods, wounds, and deaths. By Make Space, the National Survivor… more

Illegal Migration Bill: What Does it Mean and What Happens Now? 

By Kieran Lewis, Policy Assistant On the 27th of March, the Government’s proposed Illegal Migration Bill entered the committee stage… more

Mental Health Act: Draft Bill Update

The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act (MHA) was completed in 2018 and we now have a Draft Bill… more

Joint statement on the impact of video & audio links in criminal proceedings

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Joint statement on the impact of video & audio links in criminal proceedings on defendants with learning difficulties, neurodiversity or… more

Surveillance in mental health settings – NSUN response to JCHR inquiry

NSUN’s written evidence to Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) inquiry into the protection of human rights in care… more

Open letter to Sajid Javid on institutional racism within Mental Health Act reform

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Rt Hon Sajid Javid MPSecretary of State for Health and Social CareDepartment of Health and Social Care39 Victoria Street LondonSW1H… more

DPO Forum response to Health & Disability Green Paper

Shaping future support: the health and disability green paper Consultation response from the DPO Forum England September 2021 About us… more

National Disability Strategy: Where do we go from here?

By Mary Sadid, NSUN Policy Officer Yesterday, the House of Commons returned from recess. A £20 a week cut to… more

Government Fails Disabled People Again: About us but not with us

Houses of Parliament, London, with Westminster Bridge in foreground. Image: Marcin Nowak, Unsplash

Press release: Wed 28 July 2021 Disabled People reject new ‘tick box’ national disability strategy Disabled people and our organisations[i] … more

Response to the MHA White Paper

Response to the White Paper on the reform of the Mental Health Act The undertaking to reform the Mental Health… more

Covid-19 and Human Rights: the Coronavirus Act

Proposed changes to mental health legislation On the 25th of March, the Coronavirus Act was passed. The Act will relax… more

Covid-19: NSUN response to the Coronavirus Bill

NSUN Response to the Coronavirus Bill  Measures proposed on 19th of March in the UK’s Coronavirus Bill will relax safeguards… more

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