Category: Cross cutting
Dr Jake Hard reappointed to IAPDC
Professor Seena Fazel reappointed to IAPDC
IAPDC seeks to recruit new Panel member
Wendy Sinclair-Gieben appointed as new IAPDC Chair
The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAPDC) has appointed a new Chair, Wendy Sinclair‑Gieben.
New IAPDC workplan sets out priorities for preventing deaths in custody
Today we publish our workplan which sets out our priorities for 2025/26. We have committed to driving forward a wide range of key workstreams – spanning all the main areas of state detention – with the central aim of preventing both natural and self-inflicted deaths.
Two new members appointed to the IAPDC
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Kate Eves OBE and Andrew Harris as members of the IAPDC from December 2024 to December 2027.
IAPDC Chair, Lynn Emslie, highlights key work to prevent custody deaths in her mid-term report
Lynn Emslie, Chair of the IAPDC, has today published her mid-term report which highlights progress made since she began her tenure in February 2023.
IAPDC responds to the King’s Speech
We welcome the inclusion of legislation to reform and modernise the Mental Health Act in the King’s Speech delivered at the state opening of parliament yesterday. This is a long overdue and much-needed reform for which we have been calling for several years.
IAPDC finds death rates in prisons and under the Mental Health Act disproportionately high
We have today published our latest statistical analysis of deaths in custody which finds that people in state detention are at a significantly increased risk of death compared with the general population, with the rates of deaths in prisons and Mental Health Act (MHA) detention particularly high.