Events
Here we will be listing conferences, seminars, training days and other events in the fields of mental health and criminal justice. To submit your event for inclusion here, please complete our form .
September
Forensic mental health and women: delivering effective care and recovery services
Nacro's 10th annual mental health and crime conference: making sustainable change happen
Preventing Deaths in Police Care
Information Sharing between Criminal Justice and Mental Health Services
October
Autism and the Criminal Justice System
Behind Closed Doors: Nursing in a Secure Setting
Mentally Disordered Offenders in the Criminal Justice System: Meeting the Challenge
Improving Mental Health Services in the Criminal Justice System
Next stages for the mental health strategy
November
Mental Health Congress
Offender Healthcare: Improving Healthcare Across the Criminal Justice System
Next steps for improving offender health - following up the Bradley recommendations
September
Forensic mental health and women: delivering effective care and recovery services
Tuesday 14 September 2010 | ORT House Conference Centre, London, NW1
This conference, chaired by Professor Graham Towl of Durham University (formerly Chief Psychologist at the Ministry of Justice), will examine whether there have been effective changes and progress in delivering women’s forensic health services since the recommendations of the Corston Report of 2007.
For more information, and to book online, click here
Nacro's 10th annual mental health and crime conference: making sustainable change happen
Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 September 2010 | Loughborough University
Nacro’s tenth annual mental health and crime conference is an absolute must for all commissioners, planners and providers responsible for developing effective mental health services. It’s also an unmissable event for all practitioners, service users and carers who wish to influence the future of mental health provision along the criminal justice pathway.
Complemented by a wide range of workshops, the conference provides an opportunity to critically examine key issues at a challenging time of significant change and development. Offenders with mental health needs and/or a learning disability remain among the least healthy groups in society. The past year has seen several significant publications including ‘Improving Health, Supporting Justice’, ‘Healthy Children, Safer Communities’, and ‘New Horizons’ which aim to build on the achievements made to prison health and deliver effective outcomes along the criminal justice pathway. There is now a clear strategy for this to happen and this conference will be your opportunity to consider how that might be achieved.
For more information, and to book online, click here.
Preventing Deaths in Police Care
Monday 27 September 2010 | London
Capita’s 10th National Preventing Deaths in Police Care Conference is timed to follow the recent publication of Expectations, the detailed inspection criteria for assessing the treatment and conditions for detainees in police custody. This event examines ways in which forces can ensure they achieve appropriate standards and assure the safety of detainees in this high risk custodial setting.
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Information Sharing between Criminal Justice and Mental Health Services
Thursday 30 September 2010 | London
Lord Bradley and the New Horizons reports both cite the urgent need for better data sharing and collection to ensure a more seamless service between criminal justice and mental health services.
This multi-agency event brings together influential national agencies and innovative practitioners to help your organisation negotiate sharing information between police, custody, courts, drug intervention, mental health and offender health settings.
For more information, click here.
Autism and the Criminal Justice System
The National Autistic Society (NAS)
Tuesday 5 October 2010 | Wellcome Collection Conference Centre London
It is estimated that over half a million people in the UK have autism - a complex, lifelong developmental disability that affects a person's ability to communicate and make sense of the world around them. The result is that those who have the disability are often misunderstood, and this can cause problems within the criminal justice system. This unique one-day conference from The National Autistic Society has been specifically developed and designed for professionals working in the criminal justice system who are likely to come into regular contact with people with autism, whether as victims, witnesses, or offenders.
The Government’s Improving Health, Supporting Justice Delivery Plan, based on the recommendations made by The Bradley Report, sets out key objectives for ensuring that people with mental health problems and learning disabilities receive improved health and criminal justice support. However, autism is a hidden disability and it may not be immediately apparent that a person has particular needs. Autism and the Criminal Justice System seeks to equip professionals with the essential tools and techniques needed to identify and interact appropriately with people with autism.
Hear from experts including:
- Rt. Hon. the Lord Bradley of Withington, Author of the Bradley Report
- Jenny Talbot, Prison Reform Trust
- Professor Glynis Murphy, The Tizard Centre, University of Kent
- Dr Julian Huppert, Member of Parliament for Cambridge
- Dr Ekkehart Staufenberg, Consultant Forensic Neuropsychiatrist
- Sue Mulcahy, University of Liverpool
It will also focus on the varied challenges faced by individuals working across the criminal justice system, and make practical recommendations as to how you can meet the objectives outlined in the Government’s Delivery Plan.
The conference will break into streams with specialist case studies and information about the penal system and the criminal justice system. Autism and the Criminal Justice System will help you to deliver real change to the way we meet the needs of people with autism. Don’t miss out on this chance to gather the latest information on legislative issues and best practice from the key experts and practitioners in the field.
How to book
Please click here to download a brochure. Bookings can be faxed back to us on 0115 911 3362
For more information please visit the NAS website
To book a place by phone/email please contact the NAS Conference and Events Team on 0115 911 3367, or by email at conference@nas.org.uk.
Join us in October for what promises to be an extremely worthwhile event.
Behind Closed Doors: Nursing in a Secure Setting
Tuesday 5 October 2010 | Kingsway Hall Hotel, London
This conference is aimed at all clinicians and commissioners who work in secure mental health settings with a clear emphasis on the nursing profession. The speakers and workshops will engage, inform and inspire staff at all levels with up-to-date guidance and knowledge to take back to the workplace. Speakers include Dame Christine Beasley, Dr Ben Thomas and Liz Allen from the Department of Health, Malcolm Rae from NIMHE and many more.
For more information, click here.
Mentally Disordered Offenders in the Criminal Justice System: Meeting the Challenge
Thursday 7 October 2010 | Institute of Psychiatry, London
This one day meeting will focus on the issues around the assessment and management of mentally disordered offenders in the prison service and their transfer to secure mental health care. The meeting will tackle the issues from both services’ perspectives and consider clinical, managerial and service planning demands.
The meeting will have a broad appeal to Prison In-Reach, PICU and RSU staff, Commissioners and local policy makers.
The day will span two sessions. In the morning we will focus on the nature of the health need and how services try to meet this. In the afternoon we will start to think about solutions, presenting results from the pilot transfer projects and foster a discussion around how services can develop to meet the mental health needs of this neglected group more effectively.
For more information, and to download a booking form, click here.
Improving Mental Health Services in the Criminal Justice System
Thursday 21 October 2010 | London
Capita’s 2nd National Improving Mental Health Services in the Criminal Justice System Conference brings together industry professionals to examine progress being made in implementing Lord Bradley’s recommendations on offender mental health management.
With the launch of the National Delivery Plan by the Health and Criminal Justice National Programme Board well underway, hear from practitioners changing the face of mental health offender services.
Key issues to be addressed:
* Main priorities for stakeholders under the National Delivery Plan
* Strengthening liaison and diversion schemes for offenders withcomplex needs
* Best practice in multi-agency working between local services, the police and the NHS
* Early identification of vulnerable service users
* Continuity of care in successful rehabilitation and resettlement strategies
For more information, and to book a place, click here.
Next stages for the mental health strategy
Tuesday 26 October 2010 | London
This seminar will will look at the next stages of the mental health strategy. Key discussion will be around the current mental health strategy reviewing its early impact, outlining the challenges that have been faced and how they have been addressed - and asking what further steps should be taken to improve public mental health. Public mental health is becoming increasingly important in healthcare and in the workplace, with the search for cost savings a priority in meeting the future financial demands on the service. This seminar will also discuss priorities for service delivery, coordination of services and the challenges for implementation.
For more information, and to book your place, click here.
November
Mental Health Congress
Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 November 2010 | Olympia, London
This mental health event unites over fifty eminent mental health policy makers and practitioners from across the country.
- Gain all the knowledge you need in two inspirational and information packed days
- Network with peers from across the pathway to help you deliver a holistic approach to patient care
- Uniquely placed to help you to understand how the change in government and squeeze on spending is going to affect mental health services
- An outstanding line-up of high level experts, clinicians and academics and from across the entire spectrum of mental health
- Interactive workshops, case studies and enlightening user perspectives that will all help you improve the way you design, implement and deliver mental health services in your community
For more information, and to book, click here.
Offender Health: Improving Healthcare across the Criminal Justice System
Wednesday 10 November 2010 | London
This forum will offer delegates the opportunity to discuss what progress has been made in improving the healthcare of offenders across the criminal justice system. Speakers include Sean Duggan, Joint Chief Executive of the Centre for Mental Health and Richard Bradshaw, Department of Health.
For more information, click here.
Next steps for improving offender health - following up the Bradley recommendations
Tuesday 16 November 2010 | London
Guest of Honour: Rt Hon the Lord Bradley, Author, Independent Review of Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System
This seminar will focus on what more can be done to improve offender health with particular reference to improving quality and provision of healthcare services for offenders and others within the criminal justice system with mental health issues and learning disabilities.
The seminar follows on from the Bradley Review regarding people with mental health issues or learning disabilities in the criminal justice system, and the ongoing offender health and mental health strategies.
For more information, and to book your place, click here.
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