Welcome to the Nacro Mental Health Unit website. Nacro is the leading criminal justice charity in England and Wales. Our Mental Health Unit aims to improve responses to  defendants and offenders with mental health issues. Nacro believes that responses should focus on care and treatment rather than punishment. To promote this we provide a range of policy development, information and consultancy services to individuals and the various agencies that have dealings with those with mental health needs across the criminal justice, health and social care sectors. Our key objective is to help develop effective policy and practice.