On Wednesday 7th February 2024 an evidence session was held at the London Assembly about Right Care, Right Person and you can view the entire session on YouTube. A point of guidance on the session: the YouTube stream is three-hours long(!) and that’s reflected in the length of this post, so sorry for that! — […]

Pub Quiz:  what’s the longest period of time someone can be held in a Mental Health Act 1983 “Place of Safety”?  Answer to follow within the post, but I’ll help you out whilst you scratch your head: the answer is neither 24hrs nor 36hrs! A new report has been published this week by His Majesty’s […]

The Right Care, Right Person narrative is that policing needs to move away from what I will call the crisis care stuff in order to focus on crime.  Of course, RCRP leaders are rightly keen to stress crisis incidents which involve crime or involve and immediate risk to life or risk of serious injury should […]