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Right Care, Right Person: Let’s not repeat the de-institutionalisation mistake again

SUBSCRIBE 12th June 2023Dr Meron Wondemaghen, Senior Lecturer, University of Hull
There has been a lot of sympathy for the concerns voiced by policing the UK that officers are often not the right people to respond to those in mental health crisis, and plenty of support for the Right Care, Right Person approach; but Dr Meron Wondemaghen, a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull, fears that trying to push through such significant change by a 31 August deadline will leave the health sector unable to cope, and those in crisis lacking the support they need.

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