Twenty Nineteen

The forthcoming year is the sixtieth birthday of the first piece of modern mental health legislation – the Mental Health Act 1959. It’s worth noting this milestone, in my opinion, because sixty years on we are still struggling to think about how we give effect in the real world to some of its requirements. Section […]

The Big Reports

I’ve often referred to the stack of reports on my shelf at home which have been published over the years and touch upon my treasured Venn diagram of policing, mental health and criminal justice. Well, those thousands of pages all went for recycling recently and I decided to put links to them all on one post […]

One Great Thing

I’ve just deleted about half a dozen draft blogs, none of them finished … I tried to write a few things over the last fortnight and just became interminably bored, quite honestly, for the fact that I was just saying the same thing, over and Over and OVER again. This is what I was going […]