These are the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) sections that everyone forgets to talk about – so I want to make sure I play my part in ramming them home! Several things cause this BLOG to be necessary in helping paramedics and police officers understand their application of the MCA and its potential to assist in […]

Right, NHS England have set up a taskforce on mental health – chaired by Paul FARMER, the Chief Executive of Mind and vice-chaired by Jacqui DYER who is an expert in mental health by experience, it seeks to set out a five-year forward-looking strategy on mental health.  There was a press release to accompany the […]

** This post is legally out of date, because of the s136 changes in 2017.  It has been republished and updated. When does detention under s135 or 136 end, once someone has been detained in a place of safety?!  It’s actually easy to answer, just harder to put into practice. It ends when one of […]