I’m paying additional attention to Australia at the moment, I have been for a number of months – in fact, a number of years. Last year, New South Wales Police commissioned a review in to a number of mental health police contact deaths (MH-PCDs) which I covered in a previous blog. We know they sent […]

I was delighted to be invited in July to contribute to the Power to Persuade blog, outlining some of the background context and challenges in my PhD research – on mental health police contact deaths. Power to Persuade is an Australian based platform to discussion social policy – they describe themselves as “social policy whisperers”, […]

The Mental Health Bill is now in the Committee Stage of the House of Commons and a group of fifteen MPs is scrutinising everything which has gone so far, to get the Bill ready for the Third (and final) reading in the House.  If it then passes, it becomes law after Royal Assent and we’ll […]