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The government has announced the first recipients of a 拢15 million fund for new or existing places of safety for people experiencing a mental health crisis.

The aim is to prevent people in distress, who have committed no crime, from being placed in police custody.

Ruth Webster runs a safe haven in Aldershot. She tells Carolyn Quinn how agencies and individuals use the service.

(Photo: Woman with a hand to her head. Credit: PA)