Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-09-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) children and (b) adults spent time in a police station as a place of safety due to their mental health condition in each year since 2010.
Mr Jeremy Hunt
The information available is shown in the tables. Data was not collected prior to 2011/12. Data for 2015/16 will be published by NHS Digital in October.
In 2014, the Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat set an expectation that the number of uses of police cells as a place of safety for people detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 should reduce to below half that of 2011/12. That ambition was achieved on time in 2014/15, with a 54% reduction.
Places of safety orders made where a Mental Health Act 1983 Section 136 detention was in a police station, England
|
2011-12 |
8,667 |
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2012-13 |
7,761 |
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2013-14 |
6,028 |
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2014-15 |
3,996 |
Places of safety orders made where a Mental Health Act 1983 Section 136 detention was in a police station, England and the person detained was aged under 18
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2011-12 |
258 |
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2012-13 |
263 |
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2013-14 |
236 |
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2014-15 |
145 |
Source:
1. Data for 2011/12-2014/15, Inpatients Formally Detained in Hospitals Under the Mental Health Act 1983 and Patients Subject to Supervised Community Treatment, England, Health and Social Care Information Centre. Annual publication. 2015 edition: http://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB18803
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