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schema:text	We’ve seen a number of posts on Facebook that suggest a government document indicates that the Covid-19 vaccine will be mandatory and the government will use the Mental Health Act to section people who refuse the vaccine. This is not the case. The document in question was not written by the government—it was submitted as evidence from a group of law and ethics experts to a parliamentary committee that asked for evidence about how Covid-19 may affect human rights. What it discusses is in no way government policy, or even being proposed by the government. Many other interested parties also submitted evidence, which is also all published on the parliamentary website. This particular document was submitted by academics at the University of York and Oxford. In it, they discuss the legalities around theoretically making a vaccine compulsory, and recommend that the government “should give serious consideration to compulsory immunisation as a means of reducing the impacts of Covid-19”. That doesn’t mean this is going to happen. Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health said recently that the government is not proposing to make a Covid-19 vaccine mandatory. The document also discusses the legalities around treating someone who is detained under the Mental Health Act, commonly known as being ‘sectioned’. They argue that “if compulsory treatment under mental health law is compatible with human rights law, so too is compulsory vaccination”. Again, this is not being proposed by the government. Honesty in public debate matters You can help us take action – and get our regular free email You can’t be forced to get a vaccine Vaccines are not mandatory in the UK, as we have written before. The government’s own guidelines on vaccinations says individuals “must be given enough information to enable them to make a decision before they can give consent.” We’ve written more about the rules surrounding consent to vaccination in the UK here.
schema:mentions	dbpedia:Involuntary_treatment Mental Health Act 1983 Matt Hancock Immunization Vaccination policy Human rights University of Oxford Vaccination Facebook Medical ethics dbpedia:Mental_health_law dbpedia:COVID-19_vaccine
schema:reviewRating	The government is not proposing this. Four legal and ethics academics wrote to the government arguing that this may theoretically be possible.
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schema:datePublished	2020-11-11 (xsd:date)
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