Women in crisis: how women and girls are being failed by the Mental Health Act

Women in crisis: how women and girls are being failed by the Mental Health Act This report sets out growing evidence that being detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 can be detrimental to women and girls' wellbeing, with little attention paid to their particular needs, including their experiences of trauma. This can have devastating consequences for women and girls, as shown by previously unpublished figures on self-inflicted deaths outlined in this report. Agenda