Plans to build three new Titan prisons should be put on hold until better ways of diverting people with mental health problems from prison have been developed, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health said today.
A strategy for improving health and social care services for people subject to the criminal justice system.
The code of practice is aimed at professionals involved in administering and delivering the deprivation of liberty safeguards, under the amended Mental Health Act.
The Government is now consulting on Direct Payments regulations following changes introduced by the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and the Mental Health Act 2007.
The Department of Health has published a response to a consultation it held on the draft regulations for Local Involvement Networks (LINks).