I’d love to read the equality impact assessments for Right Care, Right Person – if there is one.  I know some forces don’t have one, others do and it must be fascinating to contemplate it.  The programme, as I’ve covered many times on here, is predicated on the idea of taking an area of social […]

As the Mental Health Bill 2025 came in to being after the Mental Health Act review, there was discussion about whether the MHA principles found in the Code of Practice to the Act should be moved in to the Act itself.  The Mental Capacity Act‘s guiding principles are statutory, in s1(1) MCA and that was […]

Where can section 136 Mental Health Act 1983 be exercised in shared areas of dwellings? – a new Preventing Future Deaths report has raised this question after a Coroner stated officers did not “understand that their powers under section 136 MHA 1980 applied to persons in a communal space within private accommodation.” Let’s get the […]