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Professor Paul Bebbington

Paul was a long-standing trustee of the Centre until he stood down in June 2020.

He trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and at the Institute of Psychiatry. For nearly 20 years he worked in the Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry, initially under John Wing, and eventually becoming Assistant Director. In 1996, he moved to...
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Mental health in prison a growing problem

The border between prison and the outside community appears to be particularly open to people with mental health problems.

In 1997, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) published a...

16 December 2016
Publication

Institutional care and poverty: evidence and policy review

This review, sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, examined international evidence about the links between institutional care and poverty in order to identify strategies for reducing the risks...