Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to ensure that human rights of people with learning disabilities and the needs of their carers are taken into consideration when placements in mental health services are being selected.

Public authorities must comply with their duty under Section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 to comply with the European Convention on Human Rights, except where as the result of one or more provisions of primary legislation, the authority could not have acted differently and where it was acting to enforce those provisions.

‘Building the right support’ sets out that people with a learning disability and autistic people should have access to integrated, community-based specialist multidisciplinary health and social care in their community in a way that is right for them as an individual. The Care Quality Commission is working with people who use services, families and professionals to improve its approach in a way which more effectively safeguards their human rights.