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Breaking the Cycle: Better Help for People with Learning
Disabilities at Risk of Committing Offences
Glynis MurphyProfessor of Clinical Psychology Univ of Lancaster
NW strategy for people with LD at risk of offences
Commissioned by Regional Task Force, about 18 mths ago
Core group of about 8 people (incl. commissioners, psychologists, community nurse, rep from secure service, social services rep (ex-PO), etc)
Led by Martin Routledge, VP Document ‘Breaking the Cycle’
went out to consultation (led by NWTDT) end of December ’05
Comments by end of Feb 06
Why is it important?
People at risk of offending very often end up in restrictive provision, sometimes 100s of miles from home
Secure hospital places increasing in number (private hospitals: almost 1000 LD places now)
Often people sent away because local services don’t know how to meet their needs
Often away for years Not always formally detained Not the least restrictive provision
possible
Why are local services struggling?
Insufficient knowledge and competence in CLDTs (health & social care)
Arguments over fair access to care & whose responsibility it is for people at risk of offending
Insufficient knowledge & confidence in staff in residential, day & employment services
Poor inter-agency coordination Insufficient early intervention Insufficient training in this area Poor knowledge & analysis at
Commissioning levels
Who is it that needs better help?
People with LD at risk of offending are: Mostly male (maybe 20% female) Have relatively good self-care &
communication skills Often have additional health needs
(mental health; autism) Often had very disturbed, disrupted
& chaotic childhoods Usually have had little consistent
emotional support Frequently ‘bounce’ from service to
service & placement to placement 3% of those known to CLDTs have
convictions (McBrien et al 03)
Breaking the CycleKey principles
Legal & civil rights – to act as citizens & to be held responsible for actions; to understand & exercise their rights in CJS
Independence – to learn new skills & not to live in more restrictive environments than necessary
Choice – Choice thru Person-Centred Plans; limits to choice
Inclusion – Need to be included in an ordinary life; need good support, tailored to needs, plus good risk assessment & risk management
Effective strategies
Positive, person-centred emphasis, with good risk management
Least restrictive Near to home (victim needs must be
considered though) Multi-agency: Positive partnerships
between agencies (CJS probation, prison, police, youth justice teams, secure services, CAMHS, CLDTs, employment, residential)
Sense of shared responsibility across services
Good information: where are people detained?, how much is it costing?; what plans are there to bring them back nearer home?
Support & services: Community Teams
Children’s and adolescent services – problems often known about at this stage. Need good interventions & coordination with adult services
Youth Offending Teams also see lots of people with LD: need to identify them & coordinate with adult services
Community support teams – ALL CLDTs (health & social services) should be able to provide for not so complex needs & low risk (eg basic CBT; risk assessment & management; care planning)
Intensive Support Teams (can be virtual)
Intensive support teams – for more complex needs & higher risk people
To liaise with police, probation, courts, prisons
Provide rapid assessments for police, courts (eg on fitness to plead)
Support people through the CJS (police station, courts, etc)
Liaise with people in secure services Arrange care packages Provide assessment & treatment Provide training for police, probation,
courts, CLDTs, staff in res services
Day, college & employment services
Building based, large day services are not the answer
Must be individualised day service- with supervision if necessary- could include college, employment, volunteering- has to be very carefully designed, well monitored, with good risk assessment + management
Residential services:Where to live
Range of provision needed Often struggle with families & group
homes not good option One and two person flats/houses
better (+ support) Independent living can be possible,
with carefully graded, flexible support & on-call service
Specialist intensive support services Emergency respite: small number of
places needed for assessmt/ttmt Secure service: Need small local
low/medium places if poss Need very small no. high secure (4 in
NW)
Intermediate services
Ordinary community based services
Hi secure
Medium & low secure
Vaughan’s diagram
Medium/low secure services: what is needed?
Currently have 218 places in NW for 4.4 million general pop – but 50 ready to go – so only need max. 9 places per 250,000 population) – still too high?
Secure services needs to work well: rehabilitative; active assessment & treatment; active discharge planning; good cooperation with local services; service users voice heard
Not be too large and distant
Police: what is needed
Local police need to know about learning disabilities (not = MI)
They need to screen suspects at custody desk for LD
They need to have helpful guides – eg ‘Youre Under Arrest’, ‘Youre On Trial’
They need to know local CLDT – one key contact is preferable
CLDT need to do training for them on LD, how to interview
They need to have an AA list (& good AA training scheme)
Probation: what is needed
Local probation service needs to know about learning disabilities
They need to screen people for learning disabilities
They need helpful guides & simplified info for people with LD
They need to know their CLDT (one or two named contacts preferable)
CLDT need to do training for them on how to work with pwld
Probation could do some CLDT training
Probation need to do joint working with CLDT - joint assessments; joint treatment programmes
Prisons (16 in NW!): what is needed
We need to know how many people with LD in prison? (probably <1% of prison population)
Prison should screen for LD Prison should have some services
geared for people with LD Prison should know local CLDT (one
or two named contacts are preferable)
CLDTs should do training for prisons on LD
Consultation: comments from…..
Phil Shackell, Specilaist Commissioner NW – from Cumbria MDO group, NW catchment group
Maria Johnson on behalf of Blackpool LD services
Mark Horrocks on behalf of Salford LD services
Don Rowbottom & david Custance on behalf of Lancashire SSD
Jean Doherty on behalf of Wirral LD services
Andrew Riley, ‘On the Move’, Burnley
Consultation: comments from…..
Gill Brown, Paul Withers & Mark Horrocks, on behalf of LD psychols
Tracey Dean, SALT, on behalf of speech therapy services (Burnley, Pendle & Rossendale PCT)
Michelle Montrose Liverpool Partnership Board
High McNamee, Merseycare NHS Trust
Sarah Heaton, Independent Options Stockport
Mari Saeki, on behalf of NAS, Manchester
Wendy Silberman, NDT
Comments
Widely welcomed as it focuses on needy group (Utopian?); excellent
Well researched & evidence based Partnerships need to be at 3 levels:
strategic, operational & individual Needs high level commitment from
other agencies (police, probation, etc) & welding into their key strategies
Needs to backed up by an Implementation Guidance document or it wont happen
Need leadership !
Comments
How do we get Partnership Boards to take an interest?
What do Specialist Commissioners do? Need more emphasis on diversion
schemes (eg the Bolton MDO diversion scheme)
Examples of good practice (eg Liverpool forensic LD project)
Need Link Worker for people in secure provision
Need more on role of Assessment & Treatment Centre
Need checklists for YOTs, CAMHS, Transitions workers, Connexions
Who would complete & review the checklists?
Comments
Document too big - needs to be split into sections for the different services
Skills training is key – multi-agency skills training is key to multi-agency coordination – how will it be financed?
How could we train police, probation etc to screen for LD?
Need for training for CLDT members too
Need for autism training for all groups too
Front page of easy read version – does it mean its about football?
Comments
Specialist teams would be great – BUT Is it realistic to think we could recruit to and/or fund new specialist teams?- others thought that this will create an elite team – we need to spread knowledge
Welcomed the alternatives to medium secure services – felt the step up/step down community services would be preferable, less restrictive & would help keep people out of Calderstones – but need more on pros & cons
Comments
Can CLDTs take on lead role? Shouldn’t mental health, prisons, probation, police do more?
We need better info systems eg collated data on where people are across the Region
Need more on communication Need more on role for advocates (&
safety) Need more on adolescents Need more on women Need more on ethnicity HOW do we stop people being refused
services?
Comments
Need financial examination of costs, eg- current out-of-borough costs (need good info system!)- costs of intensive support residential services- costs of setting up small low/medium secure services- costs of setting up Intensive Support Teams- costs of training for LD staff & others
What can be done…….
Some things we can easily do to the document:- minor alterations- shortening + dividing up
Implementation- some things could be done with goodwill & without extra cost:- CLDT liaising with police, probation, prisons & YOTs- providing some (eg a few days) joint/reciprocal training- setting up virtual specialist teams – eg community nurse, psychologist, SW, psychiatrist to lead on pwld at risk of offending- joined up information on who is in secure provision/out-of-borough services
What can be done……..
What needs more work &/or new funding- new specialist teams if we want them- local low secure provision- specialist residential services (step down from secure) - long term training (eg one year courses)
Funding from where?- out of borough placements- economic analysis
An implementation group with teeth: eg to review checklists & require action
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