Policing and Crime Bill (Second sitting)

Mike Penning Excerpts

Tuesday 15th March 2016 Public Bill Committees

[Karen Bradley]

Q Accountability comes through so many times on so many different cases. Can I suggest that my officials speak to you and we try to get together and look at what is happening in your specific area? Perhaps we can see if we can push things through.

Sally Burke: That would be lovely.

[The Minister for Policing, Fire, Criminal Justice and Victims (Mike Penning)]

You could go and see where triage is taking place, outside your area so that you can experience that as well.

Sally Burke: I feel that the NHS has made so many cuts—especially in our area, with mental health—that the police have had to take the brunt of where to put these children. If you continue to show that that is their responsibility, they are never going to put the money back into children’s mental health and tick the areas.

[Karen Bradley]

I would really like to show you the triage, so let us talk about that outside here.