Requirements

• Guidance for court officials on access arrangements to psychiatric, including psychiatry of learning disabilities, psychological, criminal justice social work, and MHO assessment including procedures for informing professionals of the other’s involvement. (SWSG 5/99)
• Arrangements in place to ensure the timely availability of psychiatric, psychological, criminal justice social work and MHO assessment
• Criteria for access to National, Supra Local and Local level specialist expertise, care and treatment
• Access arrangements to generic mental health and learning disability hospitalservices
• Procedures for access to, and availability of, appropriate community based mental health and learning disability services, social work, addictions services, community resources, housing/accommodation with support
• Arrangements for timely psychiatric assessment for prisoners on remand
• Access to prison mental health services, including visiting psychiatry, psychology services and social work
• Assessment for, and on-going planning of, care management, CPA/Personal Life Plan, Augmented CPA
• Information sharing protocols including consent procedures between health, social work and prison services
• On-going liaison between health, social work and prison services
• Mechanisms for informing and sharing information on the progress of a case.