A new Preventing Future Death report from His Majesty’s Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull, Mr James Bennett.  It touches upon the death of Mr Peter Fleming in 2022. Mr Bennett raises a number of ‘matters of concern’ in his statutory notice, but I simply want to quote from the first of them — “There continues […]

Many areas of the country continue to consider the introduction of the “Right Care, Right Person” approach to policing and mental health which began in Humberside in 2020.  In recent days, a public meeting of the Surrey Police and Crime Panel took place where the issues of police involvement in mental health calls was discussed […]

In January 2023, a joint committee of the House of Commons and House of Lords published a written report as part of the parliamentary process dealing with the Mental Health Bill 2022.  This bill – if passed – will significantly amend the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and it all follows the formal review of […]