I’ve spent nearly six years of my life (which will be 20% of my career by the time it should end!) working towards the introduction of s136 Mental Health Act Places of Safety. I’ve been involved in getting six up and running and improving a lot more. We realised early on, that it’s all very […]

The blog now has a Frequently Asked Questions page, also available through the header on the blog. Initially, it contains the questions I placed in the blog for Duty Inspectors, but it occured to me I should make this available more easily and that it may be added to.  I plan to write some stuff […]

I mentioned in a previous blog that when I first joined the police, it was not unusual to be called to the old Victorian hospital on my area to assist in restraining patients who were being medicated against their will under the Mental Health Act.  It seem intuitive – mental health colleagues facing violence and […]