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<br /> <br /><p>The Department has commissioned Mind to provide an evaluation of the
Crisis Care Concordat. This is expected in January 2016.</p><br /><p>The principles
of care set out in the Crisis Care Concordat have already helped to achieve a reduction
in the use of police cells being used as places of safety for people in mental health
crisis who have been detained by police officers under section 136 of the Mental Health
Act. In the year following the Concordat’s publication in February 2014, the use of
police cells as places of safety has reduced by over 33%, from 6,028 cases in 2013/14
to 3,996 in 2014/15<sup>1 </sup>and the use of health-based places of safety has increased
by 2,400 in the same period<sup>2</sup>.</p><br /><p>Since the publication of the
Crisis Care Concordat, every local area in England has formed a local Concordat group
and this spring, each one produced a detailed action plan showing how local services
will improve for people in mental health crisis.</p><br /><p><em>Source:</em></p><p><sup>1</sup>National
Police Chief’s Council</p><p><a href="http://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/fall-in-use-of-police-custody-for-those-in-mental-health-crisis"
target="_blank">http://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/fall-in-use-of-police-custody-for-those-in-mental-health-crisis</a></p><p><sup>2
</sup>Health & Social Care Information Centre Inpatients formally detained in
hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983, and patients subject to supervised community
treatment Uses of the Mental Health Act, 2014/15</p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB18803/inp-det-m-h-a-1983-sup-com-eng-14-15-rep.pdf"
target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB18803/inp-det-m-h-a-1983-sup-com-eng-14-15-rep.pdf</a></p>
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