Where one or both parents of a voluntary child patient or persons acting in their place indicate that they wish to remove the child from an approved centre. a broadly similar provision applies. A consultant psychiatrist may certify that the child is suffering from a mental disorder and should be detained and placed in the custody of the HSE.<\/p>\n
The HSE must unless it returns the child, apply for an involuntary detention order to the next sitting of the District Court. In the case of urgency, the application may be made in a one-sided application. The District Court must determine the necessity for the detention. The normal principles of the best interests of the child apply to the decision.<\/p>\n\n
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Voluntary v Involuntary Mental health services in the broadest sense, which are regulated by the legislation cover voluntary and involuntary patients. Codes of practice and guidance of persons prepared by the Mental Health Commission apply equally to all patients. The provision for visitations by the Inspector of Mental Health Services also so applies. Part 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}