This post just seeks to ram home again what’s already known – there’s nothing new to see here, but we’re now one week on from the custody debacle in Devon which saw a young woman detained for two days whilst mental health services struggled to find a bed into which to admit her.  We know […]

I’ve been unable to stop thinking about yesterday’s incident involving a mentally unwell sixteen year old girl in police custody for two days!  TWO DAYS!? If the police did that to any criminal they would be investigated by the IPCC. I admit, I’m probably more appalled by it tonight than I was last night.  This […]

The most surprising thing about today’s CAMHS related incident in police custody is that we were surprised in the first place. We know that right across children’s and adult mental health care, there have been other, very similar incidents to this one before. MS v UK is a human rights case heard in 2012, which […]