I’m not yet aware of any case involving the Right Care, Right Person programme coming under scrutiny in His Majesty’s Coroner’s Courts but we do know it has featured as a background discussion in at least three deaths that I am aware of. We saw an inquest in London after the death of Heather Findlay […]

Read More Stevyn Carr

The Metropolitan Police has today published its response to a Freedom of Information Act application for data about use of s136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and the use of police custody.  It’s a curious release which begs a number of question I want to go through here but be aware, I don’t think […]

Read More What’s Going On Here, Then?

Mark Winstanley, Chief Executive of Rethink, a major national mental illness charity, has written to the Home Secretary and the Health Secretary, asking them to order a pause in the roll out of the Right Care, Right Person (RCRP) programme.  This follows charities like Rethink and Mind receiving feedback from those of us affected by […]

Read More Call for Pause