"My Brother's Mental Health Support or lack of it."

My brother after being diagnosed with epilepsy in his teens his mental health has deteriorated significantly.

At the age of 50 he started to hear voices and was talking about good on one shoulder and bad on the other.  He was also having very vivid dreams about hurting others.    

After supporting him within the family we referred him to crisis mental health support. They did one visit and then he refused to see them again. Three months later his mental health deteriorated again where he was having harmful thoughts towards a family member and also hurting others.

At the time he was volunteering at a local charity and had an episode at work one day which resulted in my elderly mother taking him to A&E at the Northern General Hospital. After sitting for 9/10 hours and having a psychological assessment he was sent home as no bed available in mental health wards. Was visited 4 times by crisis mental health services and signed off but signposted to a support service that has a 12 month waiting list. 

In the meantime social services have were involved in relation to safeguarding for my own children.  Following assessment this has now been resolved.  

How is this reasonable care? Bearing in mind that we have been actively involved in his support network, no one from the crisis team has contacted us to tell us what next steps are or how we can continue to support him.  We are under no illusion that we will be the ones supporting him.

He will now sit in his bedsit for the next 12 months, he is worried about coming to see family understandably because he has had dark thoughts but how can it be helping him sitting in a bedsit 24 hours a day with no support or medication to improve and with limited support from his family because of his previous episode and the things that he said.

I'm sure that in the meantime he is a suicide risk.