Although Nearest Relatives can attend Tribunals, they rarely do. Sometimes this is because they want to distance themselves from the legal p...

Despite the title of this post, I’m not completely gamekeeper turned poacher – as an AMHP I do take the view that some people with severe me...

It appears that I have not been discreet enough. Since my last post, my AMHP student has discovered my identity as The Masked AMHP. I guess ...

Although many detained patients may find this difficult to believe, psychiatrists and care coordinators do not want to keep people detained ...

In the last few weeks I’ve been doing some training sessions for AMHP students, which has kept me away from posting on the blog for a while....

Animals quite often figure in a social worker’s day to day work. This is because of Sec.48 of the National Assistance Act 1948, which states...

After the frippery of the last two posts, here is a hefty New Year analysis of Community Treatment Orders, complete with references and tast...