The Royal Adelaide

On Wednesday 20th December, 38yr old Julie Seed from Adelaide was allegedly killed in a knife attack by Sean Dunk, a 30yr old mental health patient. A colleague of Julie Seed was also seriously injured in the same attack and is in hospital after surgery to save her life. Mr Dunk was arrested at the […]

Victims’ Inspection

A joint Criminal Justice Inspection (CJJI) undertaken by His Majesty’s Inspectorates of Constabulary, Crown Prosecution and Probation has this week released a report on victims of crime, not specifically related to mental health but I was obviously keen to see what it said about this. Some years back, various universities were commissioned to look at […]

RCRP and Five Protocols

I was recently asked whether RCRP addresses the issues flagged in the Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) which require joint protocols on five topics between the police and statutory partners like mental health trusts, acute trusts (who run the Emergency Departments), ambulance and the local authority (who licence the Approved […]