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Campaigners are warning that a new mental health law covering Wales will not reduce the "unnecessary" detention of disabled people in secure hospitals.Health is the responsibility of the Senedd but the Welsh government is relying on a Westminster bill to improve how people with learning disabilities and autism are supported during a crisis.

Disability rights campaigners are warning that proposed changes to mental health legislation will not go far enough to prevent the “unnecessary” detention of autistic and learning-disabled people in secure hospitals across Wales.

The Labour government has “betrayed” autistic people and people with learning difficulties who have been abused and abandoned in mental health institutions, activists told a protest in front of

Only 11 of more than 1,000 deaths in Scottish mental health wards have been investigated, according to a new report by Glasgow University.