Continuity of care from prison to community: self-assessment tool
A tool to help local areas carry out a self-assessment to improve the continuity of care for people leaving prison who need alcohol and drug treatment.
Applies to England
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This tool is for local partnerships to help improve the continuity of care for people who leave prison needing drug or alcohol treatment, so they can quickly engage in treatment in the community.
These local partnerships include:
- local authority drug and alcohol commissioners
- commissioners of prison drug and alcohol treatment
- community and prison drug and alcohol treatment service providers
- the Probation Service
- HM Prison Service
The tool will help local areas to bring relevant partners together to review and assess their local processes relating to:
- governance
- data management
- pathways
- factors that cause people to drop out of treatment
The tool will help partners to identify what is working well, and where things could work better. Once it’s complete, they can use the self-assessment results to inform a local action plan to improve outcomes for people leaving prison with a drug or alcohol treatment need.