Best Practice in Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System

Chief Executive, Centre for Mental Health

Sarah has worked in mental health and criminal justice for 27 years. Having initially trained as a social worker, Sarah has managed a range of innovative community and secure services, most recently at Mind in Cambridgeshire. She also led the research and evaluation of the pioneering First Night in Custody project in Holloway Prison which saw the roll out of these principles across the prison estate supported by the Cabinet Office.

In recent years, Sarah has led Mind in Cambridgeshire and other organisations, an organisation known for values led practice and high impact campaigns including Stop Suicide and StressLess.

Sarah is also undertaking a professional doctorate with the Tavistock and Portman Centre studying Women, Resilience and Leadership. She writes a blog and has written many guest pieces for various platforms.

Sarah is passionate about the mental health of the nation and believes it is possible to achieve parity of esteem by drawing on the amazing work already being undertaken across the country.

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The Rt. Hon. the Lord Bradley of Withington is Honorary Special Adviser at the University of Manchester. From 2018 became Chair of Council of Salford Univesity and he is also Chair of MaST LIFTCo and BTG LIFTCo, as well as being a Non-Excutive Director of Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, a member of the Advisory Board on Female Offenders (MoJ) and Trustee of the Centre for Mental Health and the Prison Reform Trust. Formerly Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington 1987– 2005, he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Social Security (1997–98), Deputy Chief Whip (1998–2001), Minister of State at the Home Office (2001–02) and a member of the Health Select Committee (2002–05). He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 2001 and ennobled in 2006. The Bradley Report on people with mental health problems or learning disabilities in the criminal justice system was published on 30 April 2009

Clinical Psychologist, Deputy Project Lead at Project Future

Dr Lucy Gore is a Clinical Psychologist and Project Lead at Project Future. Lucy completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at University College London in 2015. Lucy has worked at Project Future from the initial setup three years ago and has supported the development of an innovative and effective clinical approach that supports young men affected by inequality, serious youth violence and "gang" affiliation. Lucy has a special interest developing the use of Community Psychology and Narrative Therapy practices within the criminal justice system to support marginalized young people within these systems to address unmet mental health needs, break out of cycles of offending and achieve their full potential. Lucy is working alongside the project partners to sustain, develop and disseminate the approach developed by Project Future both locally and nationally.

Clinical Psychologist, Deputy Project Lead at Project Future

Dr Hannah Stringer qualified from Royal Holloway University in 2016 as a Clinical Psychologist. Hannah is now Senior Mental Health Practitioner at Project Future. In addition to this, Hannah holds a voluntary position within the British Red Cross supporting the Psychosocial team during international disasters. Hannah has a special interest in Community Psychology and Narrative approaches, particularly within adolescent mental health services.

Associate Director Criminal Justice Centre for Mental Health

Dr Graham Durcan has worked in the mental health field for over 32 years and is a psychiatric nurse by background. He has worked in a variety of settings, including CAMHS, community, acute inpatient, high secure NHS, a prison and has been full-time with Centre for Mental Health since 1996.

Graham’s work with the Centre has involved research, evaluation and service development work in a variety of areas and these include CMHTs, assertive outreach, crisis resolution, early intervention in psychosis, criminal justice, veterans mental health, secure mental health care, acute inpatient care and whole systems work.

For the last ten years he has led the Centre's work in criminal justice and has worked on projects covering: prisons, secure care services, policing, liaison & diversion, resettlement, probation and gangs. Graham has contributed to work programmes run by the World Health Organisation’s Prisons Programme and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Graham has a Doctorate based on his research on prisoners mental health needs, an MSc in Research and Evaluation in Health and Social Care Settings and BSc in psychology.

Graham is Associate Director for the Centre’s Criminal Justice Programme and is also: Senior Fellow - Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham; Honorary Lecturer, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham; Supervising Fellow - School of Health & Human Sciences, University of Essex; and Honorary Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education, Anglia Ruskin University.

One Small Thing

Edwina Grosvenor is a prison philanthropist. Since graduating in 2005 Edwina has developed a career in prison reform. Her work has taken her all over the UK and around the world visiting different models of criminal justice and examples of best practice. She supported and advised the then Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones, Bishop for Prisons (England and Wales) in the House of Lords and was a contributor to the Corston Report on Female offenders in 2007. Edwina sits on the Women’s Advisory Board for Female Offenders under The Secretary of State for Justice, to advise the Government and oversee the reforms to the female prison estate. She is a founding investor and Trustee of the Clink Restaurant chain which trains prisoners for work in the catering industry. The four large fine dining restaurants which are open to the general public, are built in prisons and staffed by serving offenders in order to skill them up so they can secure a job upon release. This is a proven method of reducing reoffending and the Clink has a 90% success rate with its graduates. She is the founder of One Small Thing, run by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, which works with prisoners and staff in female prisons and in the community. This piece of work has been designed to encourage a better understanding of trauma within the prison system and how to deal most effectively with those who have experienced it.< br /> Edwina is a sponsor of the Future Prison Project, led by the Royal Society of Arts and she sits on the advisory board to the Centre for Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, she studied Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University and Criminal Behaviour at Edith Cowan University in Perth Western Australia. Edwina believes passionately that her philanthropic giving should be used to create real and lasting reform to the UK prison system. She is married to historian Dan Snow and they have three young children.

Director of Agenda, Alliance for Women & Girls at Risk

Katharine is the inaugural Director of Agenda. She brings 15 years’ experience working across policy, campaigns, public affairs and parliament. She is an expert in social policy and has a track record of influencing the policy, political and media agendas and bringing about policy change for marginalised groups including securing new primary legislation to protect private tenants whose landlords are repossessed; funding for homelessness services and programmes; and the prevention of specific benefit cuts. Katharine currently sits on the Advisory Board for Female Offenders and co-chairs the Women’s Mental Health Task Force at the Department of Health. Before joining Agenda, Katharine led the Policy & Campaigns team at Crisis. She has written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Huffington Post and New Statesman as well as sector and specialist publications.

Senior Policy Officer, Howard League for Penal Reform

Lorraine Atkinson is Senior Policy Officer at the Howard League for Penal Reform. She conducted the inquiry on preventing prison suicides, a joint project with Centre for Mental Health. Prior to that she co-ordinated the work of the Commission on Sex in prison, an inquiry on coercive sex and consensual sex in prison and the healthy sexual development of children in prison.

Mental Health Coordinator, National Police Chiefs Council

Michael is the mental health coordinator for the UK National Police Chiefs’ Council and College of Policing – he has been a serving officer with West Midlands Police for 20 years. His work in the UK has prevented tens of thousands of vulnerable people being detained in police custody whilst in mental health crisis and has influenced public policy across policing based on his own operational experience policing in Birmingham. He has commanded a large number of critical incidents involving those of us with mental health problems – including firearms incidents, sieges and multiple homicides.

His use of social media under the moniker ‘MentalHealthCop’ has been internationally award-winning and his blog has been used almost two million times around the world, something for which he was recognised by the UK’s leading mental health charity, Mind. Michael’s blog has since been turned in to official guidelines for policing. He has lectured in forensic mental health and law at several UK universities, and is a Senior Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University. He has given expert in opinion in UK and Australian Coroners’ Courts on police responses to mental health crisis incidents.

Michael was singled out for mention and commendation by the Home Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament after giving evidence to their inquiry into policing and mental health and he has advised the British Government on reform of mental health laws affecting the police. He has worked in Namibia, Iceland and Northern Ireland and is a recipient of the prestigious President’s Medal from the Royal College of Psychiatrists for his “significant contribution to improving the lives of people with mental illness”. In 2016 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth’s 90th Birthday Honours for his services to policing and mental health.

Policy Manager Revolving Doors, Agency

Burcu is responsible for our national policy and campaigns. Before joining our team she was Policy Manager at Homeless Link overseeing a large portfolio of projects on supported housing, social care and health, and then at Mayday Trust, where she developed a systems change methodology to scale and spread asset-based approaches. She has evaluated and implemented several government-funded projects, and undertaken training and consultancy within local areas. Outside work, she enjoys arts, jazz and running and admits to being an avid listener of the Archers. “My experience of working across housing, social care and health sectors has taught me the importance of challenging the fragmented approach in policy making and service delivery, which often exacerbates problems and loses sight of the person. I am particularly drawn to the Revolving Doors Agency’s approach that combines lived experience, research and policy to developing practical and scalable system improvements.”

Care not Custody Prison Reform Trust

Jenny Talbot OBE, Prison Reform Trust

Jenny joined the Prison Reform Trust in 2006 to manage the No One Knows programme, which explored the prevalence and experiences of adult offenders with learning disabilities. A series of research reports were published, together with recommendations for policy and practice – a number of which have been adopted.

Jenny is now director of the Prison Reform Trust’s Care not Custody programme, which is concerned with people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and autism in contact with criminal justice services as suspects, defendants and offenders. The programme has a particular interest in the development of liaison and diversion services, and the government’s commitment for all police custody suites and criminal courts in England to have access to such services. Jenny also supports the Prison Reform Trust’s Transforming Lives programme, which seeks to ensure appropriate responses for women in contact with criminal justice services, and to reduce the number of women in prison.

In June 2011 Jenny received an OBE in recognition of her work on behalf of offenders with special needs in the criminal justice system.

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Senior Lecturer Associate DL Programme Leader for MAPPCP School of Psychology University of East London

Kate Davies, OBE, is NHS England’s Director of Health & Justice, Armed Forces and Sexual Assault Services Commissioning.

As such she oversees three areas of direct commissioning services across England for healthcare for serving personnel and their families and veterans’ mental health and prosthetics; sexual assault referral centres (SARCs); health and justice healthcare services in prisons, secure children’s homes and training centres, immigration removal centres; and the development of the national liaison and diversion programme and street triage.

This national role is to assure quality, consistent and sustained services with a strong focus on health inequalities and outcomes for patients and their families.

Kate has developed and led the national partnership agreement between the Ministry of Defence for Armed Forces commissioning, Ministry of Justice for prisons and children and secure settings and the Home Office for immigration removal centres. Previously, Kate was the Executive Lead for Prison, Detainee and SARCs Healthcare Commissioning for East Midlands and led the healthcare commissioning for prison and offender health.

From December 1995 to May 2009, Kate was the Strategic Director of the award winning Nottinghamshire County Drug and Alcohol Action Team, co-ordinating and delivering the government’s national drug strategy.

From 2003 to 2010, Kate was also seconded to the University of Central Lancashire, International School for Communities Rights and Inclusion as Director of Black and Ethnic Minority Community Engagement, focussing on the health and social care of diverse groups who experience discrimination and/or disadvantage and directing the national community engagement programme.

Kate has been a Non-Executive Director on the National Treatment Agency Board in England between 2000 and 2013. She was also a member of the government’s Independent Board for the Prison Drug Treatment Strategy Patel Review, which implemented the substance treatment service and strategy and delivery across England and acted as an Ambassador for Diversity in Public Appointments for the government Public Appointments Commission.

Kate worked in the probation service and was a qualified Probation Officer from 1986 to 1995, before joining the NHS. She was awarded an OBE in 2009, for services for ‘work with disadvantaged people’.

Head of Clinical Services, HMP Grendon, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, Buckinghamshire

Richard Shuker is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist and Head of Clinical Services at HMP Grendon, a therapeutic community for high risk prisoners many of whom have personality disorders. Formerly lead psychologist within Grendon he now leads the clinical and research provision within its therapeutic communities. He spent the early part of his career working with young offenders and his special interests now include the assessment and treatment of offenders with personality disorders and other complex needs. He is particularly interested in relationships and social climate within prisons and how these can provide the conditions for change. He is Series Editor for the book series Issues in Forensic Psychology. He has published widely in areas including risk assessment, treatment readiness, social climate and trauma, therapeutic outcome and clinical intervention. He is a member of The Consortium of Therapeutic Communities Research and Development group and has co-edited a number of books and journals in the field of forensic psychology and therapeutic communities.

Associate Fellow of BPs, Consultant Psychologist, Trauma Service Lead at St Andrew's Healthcare

Dr Annette Greenwood is a Consultant Counselling Psychologist and Clinical Lead for the Trauma Response service who specialises in psychological trauma and staff wellbeing. She is an Associate Fellow of the BPS and an Executive committee member of Crisis, Disaster & Trauma section of the BPS. She has worked at consultant level in the NHS and now is the Trauma Response Lead at St Andrews Healthcare, a charity that provides specialist secure care for mental health patients within the UK. She has lead psychological incident responses both at international and national level and was a consultant psychologist on a Neonatal Unit for 10 years working with parents and staff who cared for sick and dying babies. She has published two chapters which describes the first response model she has developed at St Andrews. More recently she has had a paper accepted for publication by the Journal of Forensic Practice: Violence and aggression towards staff in secure settings (2018 in press).

Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice, Teesside University

Maggie is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Teesside University. Her research and teaching interests include, vulnerable groups within the criminal justice system, with a focus on young people, mental illness and personality disorders. Her recent research has focused on the experience of personality disordered offenders within secure psychiatric hospitals and the provision of gender-specific support services for female prisoners

School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London

Dr Sarah Turnbull is a Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London. Her current research examines immigration detention and deportation in Great Britain, with specific focus on the experiences of confinement and removal in relation to affective issues of home, belonging, and identity.

Medical Director & Consultant Psychiatrist, Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust, Forston Clinic, committee chair for the Mental health of adults in contact with the criminal justice system

Nick Kosky is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Director working in Dorset. He has a longstanding interest in the mental health of people who are marginalised and who find access to usual services difficult. He chaired the NICE Guideline Development Group setting standards in care for people in contact with the Criminal Justice System, and has worked in prisons as a Psychiatrist for 12 years. Nick is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and set up the College’s Community Diversion and Prison Psychiatry Network.