There are some new documents worth noting on the subject of Acute Behavioural Disturbance — You will find a number of posts on this topic across the history of the blog (open the site menu, top right corner, for a search function if you wish to look them up using that search term of ‘ABD’). […]

The Independent Office for Police Conduct has today published its latest report on Deaths During or Following Police Custody or Contact, for 2021/22.  This is an annual reporting mechanism and it covers situations where people died during arrest or detention by the police, as well as deaths which occurred after contact with the police had […]

I’ve been thinking about Angela, Andy and Ben Mays these last few days as the second inquest begins in to the death of Sally, their daughter and sister.  She died in 2014 after being turned away from Miranda House, a mental health unit in Hull and the original inquest found this to amount to neglect […]