Clause 35, which introduces a formal "debriefing process" for patients after they have been discharged from a mental health unit, was agreed with cross-party support, after young people’s testimonies were central to the debates, according to charity Article 39.
Conservative peer Lord Howe quoted from the vision of Blooming Change, a group of young people with experience of detention under the Mental Health Act 1983, which explains how debriefing goes beyond complaining – with the aim of influencing treatment.
Article 39, which set up Blooming Change in 2021, said young members spent the last year preparing to influence the process, including by considering the implications of the bill for children and young people, and by drawing on their own experiences of mental health detention to ensure this “once-in-a-generation opportunity to reform mental health care is informed by those who know the system first-hand”.
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