Requirements:

• Guidance for court officials on access arrangements to psychiatric, including psychiatry of learning disabilities, psychological, criminal justice social work and MHO assessment
• Arrangements in place to ensure the timely availability of psychiatric, psychological, criminal justice and MHO assessment
• Protocols on the preparation of SERs including liaison/contact arrangements between health and social work
• Arrangements for obtaining timely psychiatric and psychological assessment of remand prisoners
• Access to prison mental health services, including visiting psychiatry, psychology services and social work
• Criteria for access to National, Supra Local and Local level specialist expertise, care and treatment
• Access arrangements to generic mental health and learning disability hospital services
• 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
• On-going liaison between health, social work and prison services
• Information sharing protocol, including consent procedures
• Assessment for and on-going planning of CPA, Personal Life Plan or augmented CPA, as appropriate