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A place to live: securing stable accommodation for offenders with mental health problems
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Ensuring that offenders with mental health problems have a safe and stable home is a key part of their recovery and rehabilitation. Noting the current changing policy context and public spending pressures, this briefing paper examines and discusses homelessness, mental health and offending. It covers stable accommodation and mental health, stable accommodation and offending, pathways into stable accommodation, the role of local authorities, the voluntary sector, the supporting people programme, the criminal justice system, ex-service personnel, housing support for people with multiple needs, welfare reform, the localism agenda, the homelessness duty, spending pressures, cross government working, and outcomes and recovery. It concludes that instability in housing appears to be linked to both poor mental health and offending, that offenders with mental health problems can become trapped in a cycle of offending and homelessness, and that timely access to appropriate housing support could be an important factor in breaking this cycle. It makes recommendations about how people particularly vulnerable to homelessness could be better supported in order to improve outcomes for individuals and their community.
Mental health care and the criminal justice system
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 10p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev ed.
England and Wales together have one of the highest rates of imprisonment in Western Europe, and responsibility for prison health care lies with the NHS. It aims to give prisoners access to the same quality and range of health services as the general public receives in the community. This is an enormous challenge. Many prisoners have a combination of mental health problems, substance misuse and personality disorder, as well as a range of other issues to deal with. But the costs, both financial and social, of containing people in prison without access to appropriate health care are high. This briefing paper examines the provision of mental health care for adults in the criminal justice system. It looks at what has been achieved to date and identifies priorities for further work.