New Code – Chapter Sixteen

Happy 2024 to you all! It’s now nine years since the Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act 1983 was published in England (2015) and eight years for the Code in Wales (2016).  Given the laws for policing / mental health were changed in 2017, that means we’ve had Codes of Practice MHA for […]

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When Does 24hrs Begin?

I’ve had this question before and I thought I’d written a post on it, but I can’t find it for love or money so I’ll assume I dreamt that and haven’t covered it! … oh, I hope you had a lovely Christmas, by the way.  I got a new cycling computer that does fancy things […]

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Joint Responsibility

I’ve been thinking for most of this week about the findings and conclusions of His Majesty’s Coroner for Northern Ireland (NI) in the inquest in to the deaths of Mr Michael and Mrs Marjorie Cawdery and I suspect there may be a few posts flowing from different things which were said, this being the first.  […]

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