Friday 10 March 2023

"failure to use interpreters"

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2023/03/10/wolverhampton-murder-suspect-killed-himself-amid-prison-care-failures---inquest-conclusion/

10th March 2023

[…] A jury at Birmingham Coroners Court on Friday returned a conclusion that Mr Singh had committed suicide. However, the jury also said there had been failings in the way the prison staff had handled concerns by the inmate's family about his mental health issues.

The hearing found there was inadequate communication with relatives, a failure to use interpreters adequately, to act on health staff concerns, to appoint a psychiatric nurse as a single point of contact for him and a lack of rigour. […]

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