Was delighted to be asked to write a guest piece for the Not So Big Society blog.  You can view it here. Winner of the President’s Medal, the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Winner of the Mind Digital Media Award   All views expressed are my own – they do not represent the views of any […]

Once upon a time in a police force an inspector got a new posting – no, this was not me.  He was put in charge a busy city suburb, with retail and residential areas, very demanding and diverse. As all good inspectors do, he sought out his crime maps for the intelligence analyst and looked […]

I previously gave my own thoughts about how to approach an assessment on private premises or s135(1) job.  I’m going to do it again, to deliberately set out a different way to approach the planning of it and in order to provoke thought / debate. Approved Mental Health Professional’s (AMHP) should bear in mind that the below reflects […]