Academy for Justice Commissioning
September 30
00:00
2014
This seminar featured Kate Fleming from the Home Office Safeguarding and Vulnerable People Units Priority Projects team and Mark Smith, Head of Suicide Prevention and Mental Health at the British Transport Police.
Kate gave an overview of mental health triage and why Street Triage services have been commissioned. She provided data on the progress of the nationally funded pilots and discussed how street triage services fit with liaison and diversion services.
Mark leads the British Transport Police street triage teams and gave a ground up perspective on how this service is working and the challenges and successes to date.