Department of Health written question – answered at on 14 September 2016.
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.
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 |
2012-13 | 7,761 |
2013-14 | 6,028 |
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
2011-12 | 258 |
2012-13 | 263 |
2013-14 | 236 |
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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