London Assembly Police and Crime Committee to look at mental health and policing
The London Assembly’s Police and Crime Committee meeting set to take place on Thursday 21 November at City Hall will look at the issue of mental health and po... Read more.
Shock at another service user from community’s death in police custody this week
The tragic news of the death of 39-year-old, Leon Briggs, who lost his life just hours after he was taken to Luton Police Station and detained under the Mental ... Read more.
BMH UK launches campaign against black deaths in custody
Church leaders and health professionals have thrown their support behind human rights campaigns group Black Mental Health UK new campaign against black deaths i... Read more.
Shock at RSM’s move to axe BME Health Committee without consultation
News that the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) have axed the Black and Ethnic Minority (BEM) Health Committee without sufficient consultation of its membership a... Read more.
National Conference Policing, Mental Health & Black Briton: Coercion or Care?
Minister of State for Health Norman Lamb MP, Shadow Health Minister Andy Burnham MP, the Metropolitan Police’s lead for Mental Health Commander Christine Jone... Read more.
Concerns Policing and Mental Health Commission moves mislead the community
Concerns have been raised by human rights campaigns group Black Mental Health UK that calls to the community to engage in a consultation on policing and mental ... Read more.
Met Police commission on policing and mental health slammed as a ‘cosmetic exercise’
The exclusion of any agency which has worked in the area of deaths in custody and mental health, particularly from the UK’s African Caribbean communities wher... Read more.
Sean Rigg Lambeth Town Hall, public memorial event spotlights mental health and policing
A public memorial meeting to mark the fourth anniversary of the death of mental health service user, Sean Rigg, who lost his life in police custody in 2008, wil... Read more.
BMH UK’s The Solution Magazine uncovers the legacy of a hidden history
BMH UK’s latest edition of the online The Solution Magazine is making as well as marking history by for the first time giving voice to the experience of the c... Read more.
Launch of The Solution magazine set to transform the public debate on mental healthcare
Care services Minister Paul Burstowe MP has endorsed a new digital magazine entitled ‘The Solution’, which is set to transform the debate on ethnicity and m... Read more.