At the margins of ‘Deprivation of Liberty’: On not losing myself – care and thoughtfulness from HHJ Beckley

That experience has helped me to understand, on a visceral level, how easily autonomy can be subsumed under the guise of safety, support, and risk management. I notice the gulf between how I describe what’s happening as ‘supervision and control’, and how one of the hospital caregivers referred to it, as ‘support’.

I’m finally free to say I’m a family member of a P:  Does it have to be so hard to change a Transparency Order?

By Amanda Hill, 22nd July 2025 I went to a friend’s 60th birthday party last weekend. Jane has a lot of friends from different walks of life and encouraged us to meet new people. When guests arrived, not only did we have badges with our names on, we were also given a list of twoContinue reading “I’m finally free to say I’m a family member of a P:  Does it have to be so hard to change a Transparency Order?”