Lousia Ovington independent investigation report ... - NHS North East
Lousia Ovington independent investigation report ... - NHS North East
Lousia Ovington independent investigation report ... - NHS North East
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LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS<br />
• The police should wherever possible, attend case conferences when<br />
invited, and care coordinators should ensure that where there is any<br />
suggestion that the client is involved with the police, a police presence,<br />
or, if not possible, a brief written update on police involvement, is<br />
requested, and the police should as far as possible, comply with this<br />
request.<br />
• The two preceding paragraphs are equally applicable to the probation<br />
service where it is involved with a client.<br />
• The probation service, which seemed, from the information before the<br />
panel, to be more accustomed than the police to (at least) informal<br />
communication with the mental health services, should nonetheless<br />
review their procedures for formal contact and sharing information.<br />
They should ensure that when they are supervising a client with known<br />
mental health or drug and alcohol problems, there is a formal system<br />
in place for communication with the mental health services, so that<br />
information can be shared both ways.<br />
• No CO with a condition of psychiatric supervision should be made unless<br />
the probation service has (after consultation with him/her) identified the<br />
supervisor, and informed the court of his/her identity. The court service<br />
should be invited by the probation service to consider revising its form to<br />
include the name and professional details (address and discipline) of the<br />
supervisor in the order, and the probation service locally should amend<br />
its procedures to ensure that the Probation Officer understands that it is<br />
his/her responsibility to manage that condition, and establish procedures<br />
by which this is done in every case.<br />
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