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41 projects awarded funding for mental health
The Department of Health has announced that 41 projects have been awarded funding for places of safety for people in mental health crisis, as part of a £15 million mental health fund.
Benefiting from a share of £15 million, the projects will seek to prevent those experiencing a mental health crisis, who have committed no crime, from being placed in a police cell.
The first wave of bids, totalling £6.1 million, have been awarded to 15 NHS trusts and partnership organisations covering 10 police force areas. They have been focused where use of police cells as a place of safety has previously been amongst the highest in the country.
Among the successful bids, Derby and Derbyshire Crisis Care Concordat group has been awarded £695,000 for a new adult health-based place of safety and crisis vehicles for driving vulnerable people across the East Midlands.
£818,500 has been granted to North & South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trusts to upgrade health-based places of safety across six Essex locations - including Basildon, Chelmsford, Colchester, Harlow and Rochford.
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust will benefit from £674,000 to create a mental health urgent care base covering Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar, Cleveland and Stockton on Tees.
Elsewhere, the Devon Partnership NHS Trust will use its allocated £555,000 to build: a new health-based place of safety for children and young people at Torbay hospital; a new health-based place of safety for adults in Exeter; a safe place within the existing paediatric ward at Torbay hospital’s accident; and emergency department; integrating children’s services into early help bases
Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary, said: “This government is committed to ending the scandal of people in crisis being locked up in police cells.
“When a person is experiencing a mental health crisis they need the right care, in the right place and at the right time. We are fully committed to improving mental health services across the country and these projects will help support people at a crucial time.”
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