So far, it seems most of the things which could go wrong in Nottingham, did go wrong but we’re yet to see the public inquiry final report, which is due next spring.  We heard evidence on policing and mental health as well from the CPS and mental health services, including the expert psychiatric witnesses who provided […]

Lesley Higginson was 72 years old when she died at her home in January 2026.  The publication today of a Preventing Future Deaths report means this is the 24th PFD notice which links to the Right Care, Right Person programme and it is sufficiently similar to certain others we’ve seen.  Yet still we are exposing […]

There are a few blogs in my ‘drafts’ folder, which I’ve resisted publishing because they relate to frustrations I had with my former employer’s approach to mental health policy and practice in policing.  The topic for this post is one on which I’d started drafting thoughts a couple of times but only after today did […]