Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the progress made by health agencies in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England to sign up to the principles of the Crisis Care Concordat.

The Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat was published in February 2014. Local health, social care and criminal justice partners throughout England are expected to sign local crisis declarations by the end of December 2014.

In Operational Resilience and Capacity Planning for 2014/15 published by NHS England, NHS Trust Development Authority, Monitor, and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in June 2014 it is clear that operational resilience plans must include evidence of sign-up to local Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat arrangements.

Local declarations should be in place throughout England by the end of 2014. Progress towards this can be seen at the following webpage:

http://www.crisiscareconcordat.org.uk/explore-the-map/

There are plans for a single Crisis Care declaration, to cover the entire West Midlands Police Force area including Coventry, to be agreed in early December.