You just get on and do it
This paper shows the results of our study of healthcare provision in YOTs in England.
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Public health and criminal justice
Promoting and protecting the mental health and wellbeing of offenders can have wide-ranging benefits for individuals, their families and their communities.
Common mental health problems at work
Common Mental Health Problems at Work examines recent international research evidence on how to help people with depression and anxiety to stay in work or to return after a period of ill health.
Implementing Recovery
This paper presents a practical methodology to help mental health services and their local partners become more recovery-oriented in their organisation and practices, and thereby to support these processes more effectively.
Diversion dividend
Diverting offenders to community support rather than prisons would save money in the justice system and reduce reoffending rates.
The Bradley Report and the Criminal Justice Workforce
This paper examines what justice workers need to help them to help to implement the 82 recommendations of Lord Bradley’s review of how the justice system supports people with mental health problems or learning disabilities.
Promoting mental health and preventing mental illness
This report calls for greater investment in mental health promotion and argues that this will bring economic advantages.
The chance of a lifetime
A very high proportion of those who have the most serious conduct problems during childhood will go on to become involved in criminal activity.
Briefing 41: Commissioning what works
Individual Placement and Support, which helps people into paid competitive work, is effective, is good value for money and is affordable to the NHS.
Short-changed
Spending on prison mental health care