The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley has penned an article in this morning’s Sunday Times, entitled – “Police exist to protect the public, we are not social workers.” The “social work” trope in policing is the laziest of them all.  I’ve always argued in the past it merely shows the person deploying […]

A few weeks ago, a jury at the Old Bailey returned guilty verdicts against a mental health nurse ward manager, Benjamin Aninakwa, and the North-East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) – they were convicted of health & safety offences after the suicide of Alice Figueiredo on a trust ward in 2015. The were originally prosecuted […]

Glancing through social media earlier, I saw someone posting about issues for children in police custody and a comment beneath from someone with a particular interest in ADHD for children. The issue concerned why children under arrest are not routinely screened for ADHD and it got me thinking again about all screening in police custody […]