Prisons: Mental Health Services
(asked on 15th July 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders of the Offender Personality Disorder pathway programme are (a) male and (b) female.
The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway is a clinically led joint initiative with the NHS. It is not a single intervention rather a series of different interventions tailored for individuals based on clinical need.
The number and proportions of men and women in custody and in the community who had been screened into the OPD pathway as of 30 June 2021 is displayed in the table below. The figures relate to all those within the Probation Service caseload who are identified as being eligible for OPD services. Being screened into the programme does not mean an individual will automatically receive intervention. This is an administrative process to identify those who may fit the programme criteria. Intervention pathways are determined through further assessment and sentence planning.
Gender | People managed by the Probation Service screened into the OPD pathway (as of 30/06/21) | Proportion of all people managed by the Probation Service who had been screened into the OPD pathway (as of 30/06/21) |
Male | 33,757 | 94.0% |
Female | 2,164 | 6.0% |
Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that is available. The data may differ slightly to that of the published statistics where data was run on a different date.