Luciana Berger – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mental health places of safety for detention under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 accept under 18 year olds; and what that figure is as a proportion of that total number of places.

Alistair Burt

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has conducted a survey of health based places of safety and used the results to produce a Map of Health Based Places of Safety. From this, we estimate that 139 (around 85%) of the 164 health-based places of safety in England will admit under 18 year olds. However, we are aware that this is based on self-description by providers in response to CQC’s survey.