Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 28498

Mental Illness: Prisoners' Release

Tabled: 4 February 2025
Answered: 13 February 2025

Question

Bob Blackman

ConservativeHarrow East

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

Stephen Kinnock
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...

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