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Resettling prisoners with mental health needs or a learning disability
- Author:
- NACRO
- Publisher:
- NACRO
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 80p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The successful resettlement of offenders is vital in order to reduce both reoffending and social exclusion. Yet meeting the often complex resettlement needs of offenders with a mental health problem or learning disability can be extremely challenging. This guide aims to give practitioners from a range of agencies and organisations a thorough understanding of resettlement issues and interventions so they can better help members of this group to successfully reintegrate into the community following release from custody. The guide seeks to emphasise that resettlement is not an abstract notion, but something which should be undertaken in consultation with the offender. The chapters of the guide mirror the reducing reoffending pathways laid down in the government's Reducing Reoffending National Action Plan looking at: accommodation; education, training and employment; accessing mental healthcare or learning disability services; drugs and alcohol; benefits, finance and debts; families and children; and attitudes, thinking and behaviour. The guide sets out good practice and guidance, as well as identifying a number of useful organisations which can assist further with the task.
Liaison and diversion for BME service users: a good practice guide for court diversion and criminal justice mental health liaison schemes
- Author:
- NACRO
- Publisher:
- NACRO
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A significant number of service users from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities access mental health services via the criminal justice system. Court diversion and criminal justice mental health liaison schemes can play a vital role in facilitating the transition between the criminal justice system and the health and social care sectors. This guide is aimed at scheme practitioners, their managers and commissioners of these services. It sets out good practice and guidance which will enable schemes to provide a more inclusive and responsive services to those from BME communities.