Mental Health Nursing, July 1st, 2006
Although many mental health outpatients qualify for free council housing and council tax exemption, service user Stuart Wooding reveals that nothing comes without a price, with most facing a bleak life of discrimination and loneliness
Many mental health patients are classified as being 'vulnerable and in need'. As such, they qualify for free council housing accommodation, for which they should be duly grateful. They even enjoy council tax exemption. Indeed, without such facilities, many - perhaps the majority - would be destined to join the ranks of those with no fixed abode: forced to sit in...
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