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Positive practice, positive outcomes: a handbook for professionals in the criminal justice system working with offenders with learning disabilities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 61p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This best practice handbook provides information, practical advice, sign-posting and best practice examples for criminal justice professionals working with offenders with learning disabilities and learning difficulties. This group includes police suspects and defendants in court. The handbook is intended as an introduction to this work and covers the essential information to help staff identify, communicate with, understand and support this group of people. It also covers relevant legislation that outlines the duties and obligations of criminal justice staff, and also health and social care staff, with regards to offenders with learning disabilities. Much of the advice and legislation covered is also relevant when working with offenders with communication problems and that may affect a person’s ability to cope in the criminal justice system. These include autism, Asperger Syndrome, ADHD (attention deficit hyper-activity disorder), and specific learning difficulties (such as dyslexia).