Retired Approved Mental Health Professional and social worker. Blogger. Storyteller. After 44 yrs as a SW & AMHP now 99.99% retired.
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It's day one of the inquiry and I'm already furious to hear how such non-legal considerations influenced decisions about serious offences prior to the 2023 killings.
It's almost as if the DR and the police hadn't read the 2019 CPS guidance on suspects and defendants, isn't it?!
The Nottingham inquiry has been told Valdo Calocane "did not have capacity to be considered responsible" for an allegation in 2020.
Makes as much sense as saying "condition orange" and is why the police should be wary taking legal views from doctors.
thetimes.com/uk/crime/articl…
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As set out in this thread, the causes of the court backlog are chronic lack of funding and absurd inefficiency.
The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries.
Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.
Masked AMHP (Retd.) retweeted
NHS cuts Better Care Fund contributions by £400m
"This is the fifth consecutive annual cut to the fund, which is designed to integrate health and social care services."
carehomeprofessional.com/nhs…
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Carrying out a mental capacity assessment is complex. 📝
Social workers on the panel will need to see the person seeking an assisted death where there is a question about mental capacity.
We’re therefore calling for this right to be made explicit within the legislation.
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This apparent shift in the government's position is very welcome news. 👏
In the summer, we wrote to the government alongside @1adass urging them to implement LPS, which has been put on the back burner for too long. It's encouraging that Ministers have listened and responded.
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Not even Helen Whately can disguise her disgust as Kemi Badenoch criticises Labour for restoring funding to UNRWA, saying they helped Hamas
In August 2024 after an investigation, the UN said 9 of UNRWA's 30,000 staff “may have been involved”
Badenoch wants to stop the most effective organisation for distributing aid because 0.03% may have been involved
That's like saying shut down the entire Conservative party because Johnson, Sunak, Zahawi, Hunt, and a handful of other Conservative MPs facilitate fraudulent covid loans by doing away with regular procurement rules, or engaged in misreporting of expenses, or other abuses of the system
Masked AMHP (Retd.) retweeted
Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax?
The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.
Masked AMHP (Retd.) retweeted
Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela. It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
#NobelPrize
Masked AMHP (Retd.) retweeted
Lord Sumption, former supreme court judge, says Robert Jenrick's plan for lord chancellor (justice sec) to appoint judges would be serious mistake.
"If judges were appointed in today’s polarised world by the lord chancellor, I do not think the public would have the same confidence in their independence.
"They’re actually appointed by the judicial appointments commission, which is an independent, non-political body, and it looks for the same qualities in the judges it appoints.
"The only possible reason for going back to the old system would be to appoint judges who were less independent or more political than the ones appointed by the judicial appointments commission.
"In the United States, the supreme court has become subservient to the president and enabled him to behave like an autocrat. I think that that is a very serious business in the United States, and we should be very careful to take take warning from it."
Masked AMHP (Retd.) retweeted
Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and judge them based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.
The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.
The Greens say enough
EXCL: Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in @rowenamason reveals theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.
Masked AMHP (Retd.) retweeted
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
The Sentencing Council tried to give ethnic minority criminals more lenient sentences, than their white counterparts. Identity politics will destroy our country.
@Conservatives will abolish the Council as part of our plans for Stronger Borders, and tackling two tier justice.
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Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer @MichelleMone - who today rightly (& wonderfully) lost her legal case - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle?
For the £122 million you pocketed from taxpayers for delivering unusable PPE – at least £65 million of which went straight into your venal husband’s offshore accounts in the Isle of Man?
For being one of a small minority of corrupt grifters who saw a global pandemic as nothing more than a chance to get rich quick?
For caring more about lining your own pockets than the deaths of NHS staff & patients?
For being disgustingly cynical & avaracious - unlike all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency?
I was given masks whose ear loops fell off & aprons so flimsy they ripped apart when you tried to put them on, Michelle.
Nurses and porters in our hospital died from the Covid they caught there, Michelle.
How dare you try to bleat victimisation now, Michelle?
You are the polar opposite of the values that should govern public life.
Repay what you owe & get your dishonourable form as far away from the House of Lords as possible.
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Revisiting Cheshire West - my thoughts on the upcoming Supreme Court case about 'valid consent' and deprivation of liberty thesmallplaces.wordpress.com…
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And let’s just say I’ve had some very instructive communications since these articles were published.
This week I intend to listen a lot to my playlist of slow, soothing instrumental music and just try to calm down a little.
Masked AMHP (Retd.) retweeted
.@CPhilpOfficial just told a whopper of a lie. He claimed the Cons Rwandan scheme would have cleared all the asylum hotels in a year.
The Rawandan scheme would have removed 200 people a year.
There are currently 33K asylum seekers in hotels.
The Con minister who opened The Bell Hotel @CPhilpOfficial spouting his nonsenses on @BBCr4today