The Scottish Government

Training material

All should feel free to reproduce any of the material included in the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 Transitional Training Guide series, although the name of the author and publication from which it came should always be clearly stated.

Transitional Training Guide - Introductory Training for Mental Health Officers and Other Practitioners - Reader 1

Emergency and Short Term Detention and Related Matters - Reader 2

Compulsory Treatment Orders and Related Matters: Reader 3

Social Circumstance Reports: Provisions for People with Mental Disorder within the Criminal Justice System and Other Related Matters - Reader 4

Trainers' Guide

Briefing Paper for Health Service and Local Authority Managers

Briefing Paper for Local Authority Elected Members

As referred to in the trainers guide, the core powerpoint slides for use in introducing the Act are available for download here:

Civil Care and Treatment and Provisions for Mentally Disordered Offenders

What the Act does - Principles, Roles and Responsibilities

MHO survey

The 2006 Survey of Mental Health Officer (MHO) Services in Scotland explored how all local authorities were addressing the new waves of legislation and how they were deploying and managing their MHOs in the face of unprecedented changes in role and demand following the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland)Act, 2003.

Towards a vision for mental health officer services for the next 10 years

This two-day conference is a development from the 2006 survey and aimed to address

three strands:

• To conceive a vision of the service in ten years time, thereby giving an ideal to aim for.
• To begin accurately defining attributes of Quality in MHO services. This first step would enable providers to calculate what is desirable in service delivery, thereby enabling measurement of services and comparison of various means of managing and deploying MHOs. This in turn would facilitate the end of finding out what works best for any given area.
• To share ideas and examples of good practice.

Here are the conference report and programme.

Working with Mentally Disordered Offenders

Click here to access training materials and other information for MHOs working with mentally disordered offenders.