Welcome to the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody

What do we do?

The aim of the Forum is to identify learning opportunities arising from deaths across the various custodial sectors, to prevent future deaths.

The Forum covers areas that fall within the responsibility of the Home Office, Ministry of Justice and Department of Health. In practice, this means looking at the deaths of people detained in police custody, prison, approved premises, immigration custody and those detained under the Mental Health Act.

The Forum has also looked at deaths which occur after prison release, and at  'near deaths', since both of these can provide important sources of learning.