Mental health care reforms to be ‘slowed down’ after Valdo Calocane report

Father of one of Nottingham attack victims says there is a need to step back and see what is safe for the public'

The government has told the families of the Nottingham attack victims it will slow down mental health care reforms in the wake of a damning report on the treatment that Valdo Calocane received in the years before the killings.

Dr Sanjoy Kumar, the father of Grace O'Malley-Kumar, one of three people killed in the attacks, said the health secretary had told the family that mental health reforms would be slowed down.