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Mental health austerity has ended, fact-checkers find

New planning guidance issued by the NHS in February contained a requirement…

LeeMC2022

Minister for mental health has not visited a single prison over her year in power

Self-inflicted deaths are 8.6 times more likely to occur in prisons but…

Charlotte Whyman

Housing services ‘in jeopardy’

Instead of being supported to live independently in the community, people severely…

LeeMC2022

Access to second medical opinion on detentions set to end

An opaque body appointed by the Ministry of Justice are pursuing two controversial proposals…

LeeMC2022

Mind: CTOs impose medication compliance on minorities and must be repealed

Mind outline how Community Treatment Orders are non-therapeutic and tend to impose compliance…

Alison Cobb

Local authorities blamed for detention rates

Research identifies a lack of knowledge in local authorities about potential community…

LeeMC2022

New government strategy ‘won’t help majority of young people’

Schemes are set to roll out in only a fifth to a…

LeeMC2022

Go home vans taunt prime minister as doctors scale up campaigning efforts

The mother of one victim of the Windrush persection has attributed her…

LeeMC2022

Children’s mental health provision green paper: what did everyone think of it?

As the consultation on the green paper ‘Transforming children and young people’s…

LeeMC2022

Funding plans offer encouragement for one million people

An under-reported boost to mental health funding is highlighted by the President of the…

Wendy Burn