Mental Illness: Prisoners' Release
Commons · Question 28498 · Tabled 4 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Bob Blackman
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press article entitled Mind the gap: supporting prison leavers with mental illness from the University of Manchester, published on 27 March 2024, what steps he is taking to en
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 13 Feb 2025
The National Health Service’s RECONNECT care after custody service supports prison leavers with an identified health need, including severe mental illness, to transition to community-based services, and starts working with them before they leave prison. N...