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Latest on Implementing the new Mental Health Act
22 August
Review aims to keep pressure on to improve, says commission CEO
Offender friendly insurance companies - list produced by UNLOCK
SCAN Consensus Project - Substance misusing clients with mental health problems: A brief practitioner’s guide for Criminal Justice Integrated Teams
Data on thousands of offenders is lost
Valuing People Now: Transfer of the responsibility for the commissioning of social care for adults with a learning disability from the NHS to local government and transfer of the appropriate funding
Stressed mothers-to-be warned about suicide risk
The chance to live a full life
Welcome to the era of anxiety
Drug-linked mental illness rises by 100%
From the mouths of morons in the media
Moors murderer Ian Brady bemoans detention treatment
Mental health networking site starts first fundraising
Report on an announced inspection of HMP Frankland (4-8 February 2008) by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons
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Muslim inmates fear for their safety at high security prison
Two thirds of prisons officially overcrowded
Correctional facilitator
Paedophiles could be subject to stricter movement controls
The cruellest wait
13 August
Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Teams of England and Wales. Report on: Nottinghamshire Youth Offending Service
Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Teams of England and Wales. Report on: Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Youth Offending Team
Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Teams of England and Wales. Report on: Bath and North East Somerset Youth Offending Team
Ex-drugs policy director calls for legalisation
Prisons accused over elderly care
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Prison system not geared up to meet needs of older prisoners
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Charity concern over older prisoners' welfare
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Older prisoners in England and Wales: a follow-up to the 2004 thematic review by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons - June 2008
Council to increase number of non-qualified staff in personalisation reforms
12 August
Report on an inspection visit to police custody suites in Southwark Basic Command Unit
Eight out of 10 older people with depression are not treated, charity says
11 August
A generation under stress? - report from Girlguiding UK and Mental Health Foundation
Crime: Tories reveal plan to get tough on bail system
Warning over backlash in bail hostel row
Living with OCD
Police warn of rise in violence by women
8 August
Action on scandal of women in jail
Average time from arrest to sentence for persistent young offenders - May
7 August
Teenager shot dead in supermarket
Convicted student wins place at medical school
Interrupting the Spiral - Women in Contact with the Criminal Justice System - notes from a conference
BASW members call for more substance misuse training
From inside to outsider
Stigmatised by my own family
Too many youngsters going to court, say Lib Dems
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Lib Dem youth crime plan a ‘refreshing dose of common sense’
6 August
Long-term sickness can be cut by 60% with support
Immigration cells squalid and unfit for use
'I was burned and beaten on the streets'
Putting people first: equality and diversity matters 2
Resettlement boost for learning disabled
Ivan Lewis challenges adult care sector to deliver
4 August
Report on an unannounced follow-up inspection of HM Prison Bullingdon 14-18 January 2008
Learning disability sex campaign
How this woman stood by Barry George and helped him survive
Even 5-year-olds are at risk from self-harm, parents are warned
Crisis is set to worsen as jails run out of cells
1 August
Implementing Services for Women Offenders and Those 'At Risk' of Offending
Mother and baby units in prisons: response to a discussion paper
Mental health killings 'falling'
Suicide rate at record low level
The government is right - we need to lock up more offenders
The crime industry
Barry George cleared of Jill Dando murder
Informed Gender Practice - mental health acute care that works for women
31 July
Probation statistics brief (quarterly) - Jan to March 2008
Population in custody (monthly) -June
Implementation of the Mental Health Act 2007: transitional arrangements
Mental Health Act 1983 Approved Clinician (General) Directions 2008
Rethinking Crime and Punishment - the manifesto
Young People who Sexually Abuse - source document
East Midlands Offender Health Research Network
Means testing for clients with mental health issues - Guidance available on completing legal aid applications
Healthcare Commission finds four in 10 trusts weak at involving users
Lambeth unveils plan to tackle gang culture and youth violence
Podcast: Ivan Lewis interviewed
Genes for schizophrenia uncovered
Offenders 'unpunished' by courts
Indefensible and unnecessary
Building on sand: Why expanding the prison estate is not the way to 'secure the future'
Why prisons don't work
30 July
Man died in cliff plunge days after arrest
New £9m mental health unit planned
Little Britain star David Walliams' stalker sectioned under Mental Health Act
Suicide watch lifer found hanged in cell
Take the innocent off DNA database, says inquiry
The media's distorting lens
Leading questions
see Patient Opinion - new website to feed back stories to the NHS
Tory plan to smash 'glass walls' around impoverished children
29 July
Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services Review - interim report
and Lack of leadership and joint working characterise services
Women's Changing Lives Priorities for the Ministers for Women - One Year on Progress Report
Murder, manslaughter and infanticide: proposals for reform of the law
Consultation deadline 20 October
Government promises neighbourhood crime maps
Disabled 'face suffering in NHS'
see Independent Inquiry into Access to Healthcare for People with Learning Disabilities
and Anne Williams appointed as National Director for Learning Disabilities
Inequality has reached Victorian levels, says shadow minister
28 July
Why smiles are better than Prozac
The readers' editor on ... Bridgend and suicide reporting
Court bans physical restraint methods used on children in custody
Typhoid women were kept in asylum
The abolitionists' criminal conspiracy
Taking on the Titans
25 July
Code of conduct for LINks visits
Consultation on
Prison, probation, sentencing and reoffending statistics
deadline for responses - 22 August
The First Annual Report of the Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy Service
and Right to advocacy over medical treatment being denied
Letter - Crisis in our mental health services
Corrie star visits Nacro’s Ladies That Lunch garden at Tatton Flower Show
see also
Growing awareness and Turning over a new leaf
Sainsbury Centre welcomes Justice Committee report on effective sentencing
Evening the odds: Employment support, mental health and black and minority ethnic communities
Suspension for 'suicide' case GP
24 July
Publish waiting times to improve therapy access, say campaigners
see While we are waiting report
Trial and error in the court system
Asylum seeker and refugee destitution has doubled, says trust
23 July
Many mental health wards 'poor'
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Violence levels 'high' in mental health wards
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Psychiatric wards: Mental health inquiry reveals security failures
see Healthcare Commission report, 'The Pathway to Recovery'
Prisons are the scandal
Punishment won't get rid of knife crime
22 July
Inmates sleep in toilets at overcrowded prison
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Report on an unannounced full follow-up inspection of HMP Doncaster
Criminal justice reforms a 'significant contributor' to prison overcrowding, say MPs
21 July
Prison Service Annual Report and Accounts 2007-08
Nine out of 10 people with mental illness suffer discrimination, says report
see Stigma Shout report - Rethink
Jobless may be forced to work for benefits
Stigma of mental illnesses 'stops sufferers trying to find work'
Charity highlights poor training in child mental health
Women set up local mental health drop in centre
