Mentally Disordered Offenders

Guidance for those working with mentally disordered offenders (restricted patients).

The guidance covers work with restricted patients detained in hospital and those discharged into the community.

• Guidance for clinical supervisors (PDF 0.13mb 13 pages)
• Guidance for social supervisors (PDF 0.16mb 36 pages)
• The recall of conditionally discharged restricted patients (PDF 0.07mb 13 pages)
• Leave guidance for responsible clinicians (PDF 0.09mb 19 pages)
• Guidance for the courts on remand and sentencing powers for mentally disordered offenders (PDF 0.11mb 23 pages)
• Foreign national restricted patients - guidance on repatriation (PDF 0.05mb 6 pages)
• Guidance for clinicians: duties to victims under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (PDF 0.06mb 8 pages)

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