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In March 2008, Revolving Doors Agency, P3 and the Elmore Team submitted a joint response to the Government's consultation document, Improving Health, Supporting Justice. The response reflects the views of three specialist mental health and criminal justice charities, working across England and Wales. It covers issues relating to the needs of people with common mental health and multiple needs at all points of the criminal justice system and addresses the resultant impact of failing to address these needs on the wider social inclusion of this group.
'Same Difference?' captures Revolving Doors Agency's analysis of the organisation's development and replication process. With support from the Baring Foundation, Revolving Doors Agency presented 'Same Difference?' to the Association of Charitable Funders' seminar on replication in November 2007.
Commissioned by HMP Lewes, the needs assessment investigates the availability of support for people who have either a personality disorder or multiple complex needs who leave HMP Lewes and return to The City of Brighton and Hove.
Revolving Doors Agency launched a briefing paper, entitled 'Prisons: Britain's Social Dustbins', at fringe events at the liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative Party Conferences (Autumn 2007). The events were held jointly with the Sainsbury's Centre for Mental Health and focused on how funds, currently expended on processing people with unmet mental health needs through the criminal justice system, could be reinvested in community-based services that could tighten the gaps in the safety net of health and social care services.
As part of the Developmental Phase of the pilot Neighbourhood Link Worker Scheme in the London Borough of Islington, Revolving Doors Agency and the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health conducted an assessment of the needs of people with mental problems in contact with the Metropolitan Police's Safer Neighbourhood Teams in the London Borough of Islington.
Reports
This report is the result of action research conducted by two researchers within Styal prison examining a range of needs women face when leaving prison, focusing particularly on housing, mental health, substance misuse and relationships.
Revolving Doors Agency launched its 2010 Strategic Plan on 24th January at a discussion event hosted by the Baring Foundation on the impact of the Government's Action plan on Social Exclusion, 'Reaching Out'. Building on the momentum of the Action Plan, the Strategic Plan will significantly increase the scale and impact of the organisation's work. Bringing together service development, research and campaigning initiatives, the Agency announced three new programmes:
Commissioned by Health and Offender Partnerships, this report explores the current mechanisms to identify and
address mental health problems at the earliest opportunity for those coming into contact with criminal justice agencies.
Lost in Translation (2005)
Interim findings from the Revolving Doors Agency Young People's Link Worker schemes.
Primary data detailing the experiences of 2,270 women with mental health problems who commit crime.
Working Together? (2003)
An analysis of inter-agency co-ordination for people with mental health problems in contact with the Criminal Justice System.
Findings from the Revolving Doors Agency Link Workers schemes
Findings from our action research on young people, mental health, and the criminal justice system.
Examination of the magnitude of housing problems faced by people with mental health needs who have been imprisoned.
Ensuring a multi-agency response to people with mental health and multiple needs in contact
with the criminal justice system.
Findings from the Revolving Doors Agency Link Worker Scheme.
People with mental health and multiple needs on short sentences and remand. A summary of the findings from Revolving Doors Agency in London prisons during the spring of 2000.
Multi-Agency Review Framework - Interactive CD-ROM (1999)
A "Do-It-yourself" tool for measuring the effectiveness of local multi-agency arrangements for people with mental health and multiple needs in contact with the Criminal Justice System.
Finding Support After Arrest (1999)
This handbook aims to provide both an explanatory guide to process and procedure and a directory
of local services with contact details.
Examination of the support available to people with mental health problems in contact with the criminal justice system in Camden & Islington.
Final report examining the 'Working Together for Mental Health in Southwark programme.
Examination of the circumstances in which the tenancies of mentally vulnerable people fail, aiming to isolate the specific “risk factors” that lead to the loss of tenancy.
A review of the special problems experienced and posed by mentally disordered offenders in London commissioned by Nos. 17 & 18 Area Criminal Justice Liaison Committees from the no 17 ACJLC Working Group on Mentally Disordered Offenders.
Recommendations and proposals for a pilot project to help divert people caught between prison, psychiatric hospital and homelessness commissioned by the Thames/LWT Telethon Trust.
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Briefing Papers
The main findings and methodology of a client-led evaluation of service provision
The Third Part of the Policy and Practice Lunches Series, 25 February 2005
The First Part of the Policy and Practice Lunches Series, 16 December 2004.
The First Part of the Policy and Practice Lunches Series, 16 December 2004
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Articles
Julian Corner, Policy Review Magazine.
Annual Reviews
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Annual Reports and Accounts
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Improving Health, Supporting Justice: Consultation Response (March 2008):