Publications

Mendas Review: The impact of Coroners’ Rule 43 Reports on Organisational Learning

News and updates from the IAPDC

News and updates from the IAPDC

Lord Toby Harris, Chair of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody, end of term report February 2012

Letter from Lord Toby Harris to the families who attended the September 2011 family listening day.

Themes from the Independent Advisory Panel (IAP) on deaths in custody review of Rule 43 Reports, narrative verdicts and investigations reports where restraint was identified as a direct cause of contributory factor in the death.

A review of the medical theories and research relating to restraint related deaths, commissioned by the Independent Advisory Panel (IAP) which forms the second tier of the Ministerial Council on Deaths in Custody.

The IAP commissioned INQUEST, to deliver a second family listening event so that we could hear from families who had experience of the investigation and inquest process after their family member died whilst detained under the Mental Health Act (MHA).

On Thursday 22nd September 2011, 11 families (comprising 19 family members and friends), who have direct experience of the investigation and inquest system following the death of a relative whilst in mental health detention, met members of the Independent Advisory Panel (IAP) on Deaths in Custody (and representatives of its secretariat).

Psychosocial influences on prisoner suicide: A case-control study of near-lethal self-harm in women prisoners – Lisa Marzano, Keith Hawton, Adrienne Rivlin, Seena Fazel – 4 February 2011 (link opens as PDF in a new window)