The Independent Police Complaints Commission has today published its report on the Police Use of Force. As always with any discussion about the most sensitive and complicated areas of policing, mental health features heavily within in it and there are some quite revealing findings. This is just a short post to cover it, you can […]

In 2015 we’ve had the second year of our Concordat in England, the launch of a Welsh Crisis Care Concordat, yet more thematic reviews of various kinds and ever more inquiry reports to read through – and we’re still seeing many of the same problems we’ve seen for some years. This post is about something […]

You remember Britain in the nineteen fifties … the Suez Crisis, the Korean War and the Queen actually having to make a major constitutional decision about the appointment of a Prime Minister following the resignation of Sir Anthony EDEN. Bearing in mind the Queen recently became the longest reigning monarch in British history, you have to […]