Forensic carers had extensive experience with the named person role under the MHCT Act.\u00a0 Fifteen out of 19 people interviewed and 63% of survey respondents were, or had been, a named person for their relative or friend. \u00a0While several acknowledged that there were benefits, including that services were more willing to share information with a named person than with carers generally, they associated the role with stress and hard work. \u00a0For some this resulted from their assumptions about the role:<\/p>\n
Thank goodness I\u2019m not a named person because they\u2019re expected to have enormous amounts of knowledge\u2026 (father)<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re the named person you feel that you have to make an effort to understand the system and the person involved and what\u2019s been done for them and be prepared to ask questions. \u00a0(mother)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There was mixed experience of the role, and some confusion about it included:<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s very stressful for me as well because he\u2019s always… if I do go to the tribunal he\u2019s always wanting me to ask for him to be released and if I think he\u2019s not well enough to be released then and if… you know, then what do I say? I\u2019m completely put on the spot you know and if I were not to say what he wants me to say then he thinks\u2026 and he\u2019s in this incredibly negative frame of mind anyway about the medical staff, so then I\u2019m part of the betrayal, so I just find it just horrendous\u2026 (mother)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not only did some forensic carers feel \u2018in the dark\u2019 about the named person role, they found that when they contradicted their relatives\u2019 perspective they could be removed as the named person.\u00a0 Some had experience of the named person role changing without explanation, leaving them with little sense of control:<\/p>\n
They accepted me as named person for about a year until [name of relative] decided she didn\u2019t want me to be her named person anymore because I wasn\u2019t representing her views. (father)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Changes of named person meant the role could be swapped repeatedly around different family members. \u00a0Some mentioned that they felt that staff influenced the occupancy of the named person role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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