We finally have a Bill to read! Some eight years after (then) Prime Minister Theresa May asked Professor Sir Simon Wessely to review the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA), we can now read the Mental Health Bill 2024 which will begin its journey through Parliament. Professor Ginerva Richardson, who chaired the previous, 1999 review of […]

Read More The Mental Health Bill 2024

The BBC is covering news of a new Mental Health Bill, to be introduced to Parliament soon and their emphasis is on the removal of police stations as a Place of Safety (PoS).  Anyone who has followed this blog in the thirteen years it’s been running will know I’ve always thought police stations should never […]

Read More Twenty Years in the Making

His Majesty’s Coroner for West Yorkshire has issued a new Preventing Future Deaths report after the suicide of serving police officer PC Martin Stubbs. Mr Stubbs was arrested in late November 2022 by the Professional Standards Department of West Yorkshire Police, nine days after he received his Long Service / Good Conduct medal for 20yrs […]

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