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Local authority planning for the mentally disordered offender

Recent government policy and legislation

Special Hospital Services Authority, Charles House, 375 Kensington High Street, London W14 8QH

^* Also Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF

As part of a project designed to assess the impact of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 upon the care of patients discharged from special hospitals, an attempt was made to obtain local authority community care plans. The difficulties encountered during this exercise and the level of planning obtained for the mentally disordered offender as identified in those plans, may be a cause for concern to all those working in this field.