Police Mediated Deaths

If we are going to talk about deaths after police contact – and I think we should – then at some stage we are going to have to define what they are. Some have tried – the current stuff on this is not great, and for a few different reasons we might need to think […]

Discrimination

I’d love to read the equality impact assessments for Right Care, Right Person – if there is one. I know some forces don’t have one, others do and it must be fascinating to contemplate it. The programme, as I’ve covered many times on here, is predicated on the idea of taking an area of social […]

The Least Restrictive Thing

As the Mental Health Bill 2025 came in to being after the Mental Health Act review, there was discussion about whether the MHA principles found in the Code of Practice to the Act should be moved in to the Act itself. The Mental Capacity Act‘s guiding principles are statutory, in s1(1) MCA and that was […]