Welcome to our pages, containing our resources and links to other sites you may find useful.
Directly below our links to other sites, below this are all the resources held on our site that you can download and use. If you have any suggestions about other sites or documents we should be linking to, do let us know. Use the about us page to contact David.
We are working to provide a wide range of links to a range of other sites that maybe of interest. Inclusion in the list below does not imply any endorsement of their services by us.
LINKS
Governmental or similar organisations
The Department of Health, Offender Health Pages can be found by clicking here, they contain links to all their policy documents. This link contains access to Supporting Health, Improving Justice, the Government's response to the Bradley Report.
Her Majesty's Prison Service, information about where prisons are, prison rules, regulations and more.
Care Quality Commission, is the independent regulator of health and social care in England.
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons, this link takes you to their expectations page. The Inspectorate also review provision at Immigration Detention Centres and the Military's Corrective Training Centre in Essex, UK.
North East Offender Health Commissioning Unit. Strategy: Improving Health Supporting Justiceidentifies seven priorities for improving health outcomes. The outcomes are geared to give the maximum health gain to the offender population, thereby making the most effective contribution to restorative justice and health gain link to their site here.
The Yorkshire and Humber Offender Health and Social Care programme acts as the Regional Presence for Offender Health in the region, introducing policy, developing practice and supporting the Strategic Health Authority (SHA), the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), the Director of Offender Management (DOM) and the Area Office of the prison service with performance management for Health and Offender Partnerships (HOPs). See their offender pages here
The National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU), launched in April 2009, consists of a small central team and a range of programmes funded by both the Department of Health and the NHS to provide national support for implementing mental health policy by advising on national and international best practice to improve mental health and mental health services. Read more about NMHDU here
The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) provides critical national services to support frontline policing. It helps the police to save money, operate more efficiently and enables us all to live in a safer society. see more here
Staff Organisations / Professional Bodies
Royal College of Nurses (RCN), a direct link to their criminal justice forum. The RCN represents, nurses and nursing, promotoes excellence in nursing and supports the shaping of policies.
Royal College of GPs (RCGP) Secure Environments Network brings together clincians who work within secure environments, prisons, immigration removal centres, military prisons etc.
Third Sector Organisations
The Kingsfund, www.kingsfund.og.uk, the Kings Fund is a charity that seeks to understand how the health system in England can be improved, using their insight, they help shape policy transform services and bring about behaviour change.
CHAIN (Contact, Help. Advice and Information Network) is an online mutual support and intelligence network for people working in health and social care. Its four main components are: Research and Evidence-based practice; Education; Inovation & Improvement and Cancer Care. CHAIN are inviting members to join. chain.ulcc.ac.uk/chain/join chain1.html
Nacro reduces crime by changing lives, working with the most disadvantaged people, offenders and those at risk of offending, to help them find positive alternatives to crime and to achieve their full potential in our society see their news and resources
Revolving Doors is a charity working across England to change systems and improve services for people with multiple problems including poor mental health who are in contact with the criminal justice system. Their vision is that by 2025 there is an end to the revolving door of crisis and crime, when anyone facing multiple problems and poor mental health is supported to reach their potential, with fewer victims and safer communities as a result. Read more about their work and new strategy here.
Clinks supports the Voluntary and Community Sector working with offenders in England and Wales. Their aim is to ensure the Sector and all those with whom it works, are informed and engaged in order to transform the lives of offenders and their communitie, find their home page here.
The Lloyd Society are an independent, non-profit, research center dedicated to improving the lives of people involved in justice systems read more here, such as jails, prisons, detention centers, foster care, group homes, halfway and intermediate housing facilities, treatment facilities, and supervised placement in private homes.
User Voice exists to reduce offending by presenting the voice of the most marginalised people in and around the criminal justice system to decision makers. View their site and their youtube channel.
Offender Health UK, a site run by staff working in the sector, providing a blog and forum for anybody wanting to discuss ideas/good practice
Research
The Offender Health Research Network is funded by Offender Health at the Department of Health, and is a collaboration between several universities, based at the University of Manchester. view their home page here