MHA versus MCA

I’ve avoided this one like the plague! … but it came at me recently, so I thought I can’t dodge it any more! The interface between the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Thankfully for the sake of my head, a lot of this discussion about the interface between the two […]

Please Stop Saying “Has Capacity”

It literally doesn’t mean anything to say somebody “has capacity” – or they “lack capacity”, for that matter. It didn’t mean anything when I started writing this blog and it doesn’t really mean anything now. You may have gathered, it makes me want to scream every time I hear it because I’ve done quite a […]

IOPC Mental Health Bulletin

The Independent Office for Police Conduct publishes a series of bulletins entitled “Learning the Lessons”. They are intended to highlight and summarise various IOPC investigations with a view to ensuring the wider police service thinks about what needs contemplating from those investigations. Episode 43 of their series is exclusively focussed on mental health in policing […]