You may remember the Crisis Care Concordat (CCC) from early 2014? – very much led by Norman LAMB MP, who was then Minister of State for Mental Health.  It led to a brief bureacracy that drove various meetings, plans and activities: including commitments by organisations to various things including a reduction in the use of […]

Nearly four years in to writing this BLOG and I’ve never done a post explaining the main inpatient provisions under the Mental Health Act. I would argue that officers do need to have a sense of what they mean, because aspects of how these sections operate affect policing decisions that can be subsequently necessary – […]

Where do the legal powers come from in the Mental Health Act 1983? – by this question I mean: what section of the Act do you point to when cross-examined in a court to explain from exactly where you derive the authority to use reasonable force to give effect to the Act’s intentions? There are […]