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No duty on local authority or CCG to fund mother's visits to patient detained under MHA 1983 (High Court)
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No duty on local authority or CCG to fund mother's visits to patient detained under MHA 1983 (High Court)
The High Court has ruled in R (CXF (acting by his mother, his litigation friend)) v Central Bedfordshire Council and another [2017] EWHC 2311 (Admin), that the duty to provide and fund after-care services under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 had not been triggered in relation to a patient's mother who sought funding to continue to undertake temporary excursions with her son from the hospital in which he was detained under section 3 of the Act.
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