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Welcome to the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody

THE FORUM WEBSITE IS NOW SUSPENDED PENDING THE NEW MINISTERIAL COUNCIL ON DEATHS IN CUSTODY IN APRIL 2009

What do we do?

The aim of the Forum is to identify learning opportunities arising from deaths across the various custodial sectors, to prevent future deaths.

The Forum covers areas that fall within the responsibility of the Home Office, Ministry of Justice and Department of Health. In practice, this means looking at the deaths of people detained in police custody, prison, approved premises, immigration custody and those detained under the Mental Health Act.

The Forum has also looked at deaths which occur after prison release, and at  'near deaths', since both of these can provide important sources of learning.

Latest News

27 March 2009
The Forum published its second and final annual report.  To read the full report click here.
Click here to read comments on the report from the Forum's Chair and Ministry of Justice Minister Shahid Malik

22 January 2009
High Court orders fresh inquest into the death of a 14-year-old boy in a Secure Training Centre

19 January 2009
Forum publishes new research into investigations of custody deaths

01 January 2009
Ministry of Justice announce figures for apparently self-inflicted deaths in prisons for the 2008 calendar year.

For more information see the News section