The Latest Breaking News from Mental Welfare Commission

Scots 'Good Samaritan' could have been saved if murderer was offered accommodation, report says

Alan Geddes was murdered in 2019 by Stuart Quinn who was released from a psychiatric hospital the same day.

Daily Record · Mar 9, 2023

Glasgow specialist children’s mental health ward praised by Mental Welfare Commission

Inspectors spoke to young patients, their relatives and carers at the National Children’s Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at the Royal Hospital for Children and found that children felt they were “listened to”.

Glasgow Live · Jan 25, 2023

Edinburgh youngsters with eating disorders restrained by 'heavy-handed' medics

Bosses at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People's Melville Unit have been told to improve nine areas of care after inspectors from the Mental Welfare Commission discovered a series of issues at the facility

Edinburgh Live · Nov 17, 2022