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Recommendation 9
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Accelerate plans to increase Community Sentence Treatment Order availability nationwide by March 2023
Conclusion
The MoJ and the NHS should accelerate plans to increase the availability of Community Sentence Treatment Requirement orders, so these orders are available options for sentencers in all parts of England and Wales by 31 March 2023.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response focuses on tackling racial disparity in mental health services, mentioning a National Mental Health Needs Analysis that includes ethnicity. It states this will inform service specification reviews to reduce health inequalities, but does not address the recommendation to accelerate the availability of Community Sentence Treatment Requirement orders.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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Drug and Alcohol Treatment Requirements and secondary care MHTRs are already available to sentencers in every court and we are in the process of raising awareness among the judiciary about their availability. Through the Community Sentence Treatment Requirements Programme, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), MoJ, HMPPS, NHS England, NHS Improvement and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) are working together to ensure greater use and improved access to timely and appropriate mental health and substance misuse services for offenders who need them. The programme, which uses NHS Long Term Plan funding, is on track to introduce primary care Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTRs) to half of England by 2023.
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