It’s 5am and I’ve been awake for a couple of hours, unable to get back to sleep … so I’ve put the coffee on and decided to start writing and this time it’s about “the system” we hear so much about.  Last night I was reading a number of articles and the social media comments […]

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I was taken by surprise today, to learn the “phase one” report from the Southport Inquiry was published.  I came out of a work meeting having actually mentioned Southport to find it was all over the news so in I piled, only to find it is over 750-pages long!  Quite the reading task, especially if […]

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I spent some time recently in good company on my old policing patch where I worked as as sergeant – assisting with CPD for psychiatrists in Birmingham & Solihull and it was most agreeable.  One of the other speakers – a solicitor I know who specialises in mental health law – grabbed me during a […]

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