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Who are vulnerable offenders? Care not custody Liaison and Diversion Briefing Launch

Who are vulnerable offenders?

• 40% of offenders on probation have a mental health condition

• 23% of prisoners would qualify for secondary mental health care on the outside

• 65% have numeracy levels at or below age 11• 15% of newly sentenced prisoners are homeless• 42% of released prisoners have no fixed abode• Two-thirds have no job to go to on release

Young people• Three times more likely to have mental health problems• 6 out of 10 have speech and communication problems• Autistic young people are 7 times more likely to enter

youth justice system• ADHD affects 1 in 10 boys and 1 in 5 girls in Young

Offender Institutions• 60% of young people in custody have acquired brain

injury

Young people in custody• 75% have lived with someone other than a

parent (1.5% in the general population)• 45% have been permanently excluded from

school• 40% have been homeless• 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 20 boys in custody report

having previously been sexually abused.

Care not Custody:• Partnership between the National Federation of

Women’s Institutes and the Prison Reform Trust • Care not Custody:

o Campaigno Coalitiono Programme

• Chaired by Lord Keith Bradley; members include representatives from ADASS, Mick Connnell and Zandrea Stewart.

Care not Custody programme:Current themes of work:

o Support for vulnerable defendants in the criminal courts; Fair Access to Justice?

o On line information/training for magistrateso ‘Care not Custody’ agenda for Police and Crime

Commissioners; briefing paper concerning vulnerable suspects

o Liaison and diversion services; ‘holding government to account’

o The role of adult social care; Making the difference.

Liaison and Diversion Cross government Health and Criminal Justice

initiative aimed at supporting the work of liaison and diversion sites across England to improve health outcomes and reduce reoffending.

Roll out of liaison and diversion services to every police custody suite and court by 2014 subject to business case approval.

Work in progressNetwork of 101 liaison and diversion schemes across England - National Liaison and Development Network ( NLDDN)

Data collection for business case development

Development of operating model / good

practice/ quality standards / workforce

competencies / commissioning

guidance

Alternatives to custody programme

OHRN / DH OHC NOMS