Submission to Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Bill

Executive Summary 

1. Overall, The Salvation Army strongly supports the various provisions of this Bill. 
2. We welcome, with this Bill, the fulfilment of another recommendation from the He Ara Oranga: Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction report. We also acknowledge the work of the new Interim Commission, announced in September 2019. 
3. Although our submission supports this Bill, there are some specific aspects of the Bill that we wish to comment on further below. The Salvation Army also made a submission to He Ara Oranga which can be found here - www.salvationarmy.org.nz/article/submission-government-inquiry-mental-health-addiction 

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