I was delighted to be invited in July to contribute to the Power to Persuade blog, outlining some of the background context and challenges in my PhD research – on mental health police contact deaths. Power to Persuade is an Australian based platform to discussion social policy – they describe themselves as “social policy whisperers”, […]

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The Mental Health Bill is now in the Committee Stage of the House of Commons and a group of fifteen MPs is scrutinising everything which has gone so far, to get the Bill ready for the Third (and final) reading in the House.  If it then passes, it becomes law after Royal Assent and we’ll […]

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Whenever we listen to families explaining what they want from investigations, inquiries or inquests after police contact deaths, we more often than not hear they just want “lessons to be learned” so other families don’t have to go through what they have been through.  Whenever we hear senior police officers (or senior people from non-police […]

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