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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.
Comprehensive services for complex needs: a summary of the evidence
- Authors:
- REVOLVING DOORS AGENCY, CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Revolving Doors Agency
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 11
- Place of publication:
- London
Summarises evidence for three ways of working with people with multiple and complex needs: Multisystemic Therapy; wraparound; and the link worker model. The needs of this group often includes mental health problems, offending, homelessness and substance misuse. These models seek to address repeated failures to help people facing multiple needs and address interrelated outcomes such as reducing reoffending, improving mental health and preventing further exclusion. Section one introduces the models and highlights common features developed for work with people with multiple and complex needs. Section two summarises the evidence for all three models, focusing on outcomes relevant to commissioners' responsibilities. Section three outlines the financial case for the models, which focus on preventing costly outcomes such as offending and homelessness. Section four raises some key considerations and recommendations for commissioners and for further research. (Edited publisher abstract)