| Date | Category | Guidance | Changes |
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| Mental health | Suicide and bereavement response | Changes made to section - Suicide and bereavement response. An additional bullet was added between 'seize any note showing.....' and 'recover any relevant communication.....'. Extra bullet point added read 'consider whether domestic abuse or coercive and controlling behaviour may have contributed to or caused the death' |
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| Mental health | Suicide and bereavement response | Added new reference document (College of Policing (2023) Delivering a death message) to the section on Conveying the message. |
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| Mental health | Sources of help for those in need of mental and emotional support | Email changed from [email protected] to [email protected] - in the section ‘Bereavement support after a death by suicide for adults’ |
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| Mental health | Mental vulnerability and illness | Review of all existing links to the 2011 ABE guidance and update the reference to the new 2022 guidance. |
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| Mental health | Mental vulnerability and illness | New paragraph added to the end of the autism section (section 2.1.4). |
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| Mental health | Mental health – detention | Change to wording in relation to Section 136 of the Mental Health Act and hotel rooms. |
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| Mental health | Sources of help for those in need of mental and emotional support | Broken links removed from the bottom of Mental health>sources of support. |
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| Mental health | Mental health – detention | New paragraph added regarding temporary accommodation. |
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| Mental health | Suicide and bereavement response | Amended content under After a suicide attempt in line with Coroner rulings. |
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| Mental health | Introduction and strategic considerations | Update in relation to Police Mental Health Related Incident, plus new bullet under Key National Reports - HMICFRS Policing and Mental Health – Picking up the Pieces (2018). |
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| Mental health | Mental vulnerability and illness | Links to autism resources added. |
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| Mental health | Introduction and strategic considerations | Updated link to Autism guidance document. |
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| Mental health | AWOL patients | Replaced link to National Ambulance section 136 Protocol 2014. |
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| Mental health | Mental health – detention | Replaced link to National Ambulance section 136 Protocol 2014. |
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| Mental health | Mental health – detention | Updated links to PACE Codes. |
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| Mental health | Sources of help for those in need of mental and emotional support | Removed link to Console. |
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| Mental health | Mental health – detention | Detention module - change around safe place timescales. |
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| Mental health | Suicide and bereavement response | New addition to Mental Health APP. |
