We’ve felt the temperature rising for some time. Mental health and crisis care have been creeping up the agenda and policing has often found itself front and centre, connected in various ways. Whilst we’ve seen a few areas of the country making different kinds of progress on issues that have dogged the police for years, […]

Paul JENKINS, the outgoing CEO of Rethink Mental Illness, has been a keen supporter of this blog for a while. I vividly remember hearing a loud “Woop!” when Stephen FRY read out my name at the 2012 Mind Awards and was later informed that it was Paul somewhat leaping up from his chair. He was […]

We have seen for some while a story circulating on the internet and social media that “armed police on mental health wards, FoI reveals.”  My immediate concerns were raised because the wording of this headline denoted to me either that it was being reported to have happened more than once OR that it was some […]