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Joint inspection finds that thousands of people with a mental illness are coming into the criminal justice system each year but their needs are being missed at every stage.
It’s Time is the new campaign for better mental health and wellbeing support for young people in prison from Spark Inside
Justice Committee calls for root and branch reform of mental health in prisons.
Charlie Brooker & Coral Sirdifield on maximising positive mental health outcomes for people on probation.
The 10th anniversary of the Bradley Report finds we are slowly starting to make progress on the justice and health agenda.
Clinks report sets out key principles towards developing a whole prison approach to good mental health.
St Mungo’s reveals a dramatic increase in the proportion of people sleeping rough who have died with mental health support needs from 2010 to 2017
Prison environments and women prisoners’ needs are complex and demand gender-aware care in view of women’s vulnerability and histories of trauma.
The developers of these mental health chatbots do not suggest they are a replacement for person-to-person therapy although there do seem to be some real benefits.
An internationsl systematic review concludes that eHealth can improve treatment outcomes because of its
potential to increase motivation and engagement and deliver an individually tailored approach.
Street lottery Last week (18 October 2017) VolteFace published an important new report on the issue of cannabis and mental health. Entitled Street Lottery, the report provides
Briefing calls for better data to build more culturally effective services for BAME people with mental health problems in contact with the justice system.
