New sentencing guidelines that will see the courts in England and Wales take full account of the harm caused by arson attacks on historic buildings or criminal damage leading to severe disruption of public services have been published by the Sentencing Council.
Social services are seeing more than 560 cases of children with mental health disorders every day – an increase of more than 50 per cent in just four years.
War veterans with severe post-traumatic stress disorder exhibit a range of physical symptoms that current treatments do not address, new research has found.
UN human rights experts have urged Australia to immediately provide appropriate health care to more than 800 asylum seekers and other migrants who have been held in the country’s offshore facilities for the past five years without durable solutions.
A mental health charity has warned that Serco’s plan to evict 300 asylum seekers will exacerbate trauma and anxiety disorders among one of Scotland’s most vulnerable communities.
The family of a man who died in prison says he was criminalised for mental ill health, and throughout his life was failed by the systems in place to protect him.
Children and young people with mental health issues are being turned away from NHS services and up to 110,000 are missing out on treatment in a year, according to new figures by The Children’s Society.
The areas of the UK with the highest prevalence of maternal mental illness coincide with areas with the highest levels of deprivation and adult mental illness in general, as shown by previous research.
The report points to a systemic failure of the Trust to tackle repeated and critical failings and highlights inadequacies in initial investigations into the deaths.