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Morgan-Rose Hart

2023-0540
Prevention of Future Deaths Report

Coroner

Coroner's area

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Sonia Hayes

Essex

19 December 2023

Report recipients

MH unit (inc for people detained under MH Act)

Local authority: Transition (CSC-ASC)

Morgan-Rose took her life while sectioned under the MHA. She was 18 with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder; her transition from Children's to Adult1 Social Care had been badly managed, with a lack of information transfer between the two serevices and with no consideration of her own anxieties.

MHU staff consistently failed to engage with Morgan-Rose, to the point where she felt they didn't have time for her. They failed to monitor her as they were required to, falsifying observation records and relying on the Oxevision automated observation system instead of face-to-face observations. When Oxevision triggered an alarm to say she had been unattended in the bathroom for three minutes, which should have resulted in an immediate welfare check, the system was reset by an unknown person and Morgan-Rose was left in the bathroom for 50 minutes.

Staff had also failed to pick up on warning signals in her behaviour which should have led to heightened alertness. Basic record-keeping was extremely poor, as was the oversight and monitoring of records by senior staff.

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