I was taken by surprise today, to learn the “phase one” report from the Southport Inquiry was published.  I came out of a work meeting having actually mentioned Southport to find it was all over the news so in I piled, only to find it is over 750-pages long!  Quite the reading task, especially if […]

I spent some time recently in good company on my old policing patch where I worked as as sergeant – assisting with CPD for psychiatrists in Birmingham & Solihull and it was most agreeable.  One of the other speakers – a solicitor I know who specialises in mental health law – grabbed me during a […]

I’ve had some very enjoyable days these last few months delivering CPD to AMHPs.  I’ve covered the north-west of England and north Wales and then used a lunchbreak in one of them to jump in to some online CPD for AMHPs in the north-east of England, something which legal firm DAC Beachcroft have asked me […]