The authors aim to provide practical guidance to enable practitioners in the various criminal justice, health and social care agencies to divert mentally disordered offenders from prosecution and custody and to help prevent re-offending.

Produced in association with MIND and the Department of Health, this book is a practical guide to planning, establishing and managing diversion from custody schemes for multi-agency groups. It is a practical, how-to guide which explains partnership work and how such schemes can be implemented.