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The Ministry of Justice had to make resource savings of 23% in real terms by 2014‐15, compared to its 2010‐11 budget.

The Quality Network for Forensic Mental Health Services (QNFMHS) was set up in 2006 by the College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI). QNFMHS adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to quality improvement in medium and low secure mental health services.

Home Office Research Study 299 published – 40 year follow-up of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development.

Forensic psychiatrists from across the European Union came together to form an annual informal discussion group to focus on common problems and develop training.

In Oct North East London NHS Strategic Authority published a report on the Daksha Emson case. Dr Daksha Emson, a psychiatrist, and her daughter, aged three months, died following an extended suicide on 9th October 2000. The enquiry concluded, among… Continue reading →

The Department of Forensic Psychiatry at Institute of Psychiatry became the Department of Forensic Mental Health Sciences.

A white paper, Reforming the Mental Health Act was published in December. Among other things it consolidated the government’s view that new DSPD services should be introduced. Over 100 additional secure NHS places and 180 prison places for the DSPD… Continue reading →

The Criminal Justice and Court Services Act introduced Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) to bring together police, probation, health, housing and social services to supervise released prisoners who had committed serious offences.

The security panic created by the Fallon report meant that the Labour government asked Sir Richard Tilt an ex-director of the prison service to undertake an enquiry into the security of all three high security hospitals in England. Despite a… Continue reading →

A white paper “Managing Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD)” was published the same year (1999) and it proposed to detain and treat mentally disordered offenders who pose a significant risk of harm to others and themselves. The white… Continue reading →