His Majesty’s Coroner for Greater Manchester has issued a stinging rebuke of Greater Manchester Police following the death of Angeline Phillips — known as Ange — after a seventeen hour delay in their response to a concern for welfare which was made to them by a friend of hers.  The delay in itself is important and must be […]

Many years ago, there used to be a lot of discussion around the issue of patients being ‘medically cleared’ before they would be accepted in to a health-based Place of Safety, following their detention under s135/136 MHA.  ‘Medically cleared’ for the purposes of this post, is the idea that all those detained under s135/136 should […]

There has been an 8% rise (at least) in the use of s136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, in the year ending March 2022.  In one force areas there has been a 55% increase in the use of this power in a single year – West Midlands Police rose from 1,221 to 1,888.  We’ve […]