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Prison and Community – Bridging the Gaps. Background. Managing continuity-of-care critical to successful delivery of DIP Managing continuity-of-care between community – prison – community prison – prison has been historically weak New guidance published in July 2009: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Prison and Community – Bridging the Gaps
Background
• Managing continuity-of-care critical to successful delivery of DIP
• Managing continuity-of-care betweencommunity – prison – communityprison – prison
has been historically weak
• New guidance published in July 2009:
Drug Misusing Offenders – ensuring the continuity-of-care between prison and community
Key points from the guidance document
• defines a “journey map” along which drug misusing offenders travel when transferring between community and prisons
• clarifies at each point the respective continuity-of-care roles and responsibilities of community drug workers and prison Substance Misuse Teams
Continuity-of-care journey map
Prisoner enters Reception
Transfer, Release or court
Process 8
Prisoner enters main prison Process 5
Tran
Custody/Released ?Cus
Ongoing prisoner management./
care Process 6
Process 9
Is the CJIT present in court?
Process 13
Process 14
Sent to new prison
Process 12
Process 11 Y
Crt 10
Rel
Rel
P re sN
o t Pr es
Is the prisoner a PPO and/or problematic drug user?
Process 3
Has the prisoner
arrived from the community or another
prison?Process 1
Pris
N Exit
Prisoner has arrived from the
community Process 4
Pre- release planning
Process 7
Y
Prisoner has transferred from another prison
Process 2
Questions to structure debate
• How can we build on the guidance to strengthen continuity-of-care provision?
• What areas of best practice already exist?
• In any re-fresh of the guidance document, what issues should be added / emphasised?
