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Women with Mental Health & Wellbeing Needs in the Criminal Justice System

Women with Mental Health & Wellbeing Needs in the Criminal Justice System. Forensic Mental Health Practitioner Service – Women’s Services. Welcome!. Introductions Workshop Content Any questions?. Together’s Forensic Mental Health Practitioner Service .

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Women with Mental Health & Wellbeing Needs in the Criminal Justice System

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  1. Women with Mental Health & Wellbeing Needs in the Criminal Justice System Forensic Mental Health Practitioner Service – Women’s Services

  2. Welcome! • Introductions • Workshop Content • Any questions?

  3. Together’s Forensic Mental Health Practitioner Service • How we work to support vulnerable defendants and offenders • Mental Health provision in Probation • Court Liaison and Diversion mental health provision • Earlier identification in police station liaison and diversion services • Dedicated services for Women • Partnerships

  4. Dedicated services for Women in the Criminal Justice SystemWhy women – only services? • Health and social care inequalities • CJ involvement is only one of poor outcomes • Issues facing women in CJS – Delegates experience?

  5. Together’s model of working with women defendants • What is your experience of WiCJS coming to the attention of MH Services? • How we work in Courts • Working in a gender-appropriate and a Trauma – Informed way • Links to accommodation partners

  6. Quizz On your chairs you have found cards We will now go through a few statements If you agree – indicate by lifting the GREEN card If you disagree – use the RED card

  7. #1 In the last 15 years, the number of women in prison has more or less remained the same

  8. #2 Women commit a different range of offences from men. They commit more acquisitive crime and have a lower involvement in serious violence, criminal damage and professional crime. However, proportionately, more women than men are remanded in custody

  9. #3 The cost of keeping a woman in prison for 1 year is £23,600, while the cost of a Community Order is just under half of that.

  10. #4 51% of women in prison have mental health needs and 32% of women in prison have a long-standing illness

  11. #5 Almost 7 in 10 women in prison reported committed the offence(s) while under the influence of illegal drugs and/or in order to obtain money to buy drugs

  12. #6 48% of women in prison reported having committed offences to support someone else’s drug use

  13. #7 Women in prison self-harm twice as often as men in prison

  14. #8 Women with histories of violence and abuse are over represented in the criminal justice system: More than 50% of women in prison have experienced domestic violence; 1 in 3 has experienced sexual abuse

  15. #9 30% of women in prison lose their accommodation while in prison

  16. #10 18,000 children are separated every year from their mothers, who are women with the chaotic homes lives, severe poverty and who offend

  17. Sources: • Ministry of Justice (2013). Gender differences in substance misuse and mental health amongst prisoners: Results from the Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) longitudinal cohort study of prisoners. • Ministry of Justice (2011). Statistics on Women and the Criminal Justice System. • Home Office (2007). The Corston Report: Review of women with particular vulnerabilities in the Criminal Justice System. • Ministry of Justice (2012). A Distinct Approach: A guide to working with Women in the Criminal Justice System. • Together for Mental Wellbeing (2013): A Common Sense Guide to working with women with health and wellbeing needs in the criminal justice system. • www.womensbreakout.org.uk • www.womeninprison.org.uk

  18. An important point Same treatment does not result in equal outcomes

  19. And another one! Think in the context of trauma Think holistically

  20. Case Study • We will work in groups • You all have the same case study • Identify the Issues discussion in groups • Feedback to wider group

  21. Think “trauma” • Now consider this client’s presentation and needs in the context of experiences of abuse and complex trauma

  22. Case Scenarios Each group has a different outcome for the case to consider All of them are realistic What are your thoughts?

  23. Thank you!Evaluation Forms  Frankie Clayman Women’s FMHP at Thames Magistrates Court Eva Roussou Project Coordinator/ Women’s Lead Forensic Mental Health Practitioner Service eva-roussou@together-uk.org

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