Dr David Crepaz-Keay, from the Mental Health Foundation, said: "This reform must lead to better treatment, and greater focus on support that keeps people reaching crisis or being detained."

The chair of England's first public inquiry into mental health deaths, Baroness Lampard, has vowed to "seek out the truth" - despite difficulties getting documents from the NHS.

A lack of supported housing was the biggest reason for delayed discharges from mental health hospitals in England last year, costing the NHS about £71m, according to a report.

The objective of this Black emancipatory action research project was to explore the role of Black-led community organisations in supporting Black mental health and wellbeing in the UK.

The change means the NHS in England is one of the first countries in the world to offer access to a 24/7 full package of mental health crisis support through one single phone line.

Every year hundreds die preventable deaths at the hands of police, in prison, or in the care of mental health services in the UK. Some you’ll know, Most you won’t.

Liberty, and over thirty organisations and individuals working in mental health, criminal and racial justice as well as civil liberties, has called for a rethink of the UK’s approach.

Local authority leaders have raised concerns that plans for police to stop attending mental health incidents, as set out in a Partnership Agreement, are ‘being rolled out too quickly.'

The family of a woman who was the seventh person in as many years to take her own life by the same means at units run by an NHS trust said it “shouldn’t have happened”.