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The Enhanced Reconnect (ER) service helps prison leavers with complex health needs, who are rated by the probation service as being high or very high risk of serious harm to others.
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How we can help
How we can help
We could work with you if you are resettling into the south west, from six months prior to your release from prison, and up to twelve months afterwards. Our team covers a geographical patch that spans across the entire south west (Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire).
We aim to ensure continuity of care during your transition to community-based healthcare and support services, alongside providing direct support to you.
We can support you to:
- Reintegrate into the community, with 'through the gate' support. This might include supporting you to sign up for a GP, reinstating your repeat prescriptions or supporting you to provide evidence for benefits such as Enhanced Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment.
- Understand, manage, and prevent the development or deterioration of health conditions, and to address health-related drivers of serious and high-risk offending behaviours.
- Build upon your strengths, and to learn new skills.
- Develop a safe, trusting relationship with both us in the Enhanced Reconnect team and other staff.
- Engage in psychological interventions (e.g. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills or Cognitive Analytic Therapy).
We also work closely with the other agencies you may be involved with, for example probation, NHS, and adult social care. We can help identify and break down barriers which reduce your accessibility to community-based services. This might include our attendance at MAPPA meetings, ensuring you have a wrap-around package of care and advocating for you in other capacities.
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How to get help
How to get help
You may potentially qualify for support from our service if you fit one of the three priority groups:
- Priority Group 1. If you are identified as a "critical public protection case" and are under the management of the National Security Division. This might be because you are a sexual and/or violent offender, who is high profile and of national interest. Or it might be that you were convicted under the Terrorism Act (or the court states your offence is terrorist-connected).
- Priority Group 2. If you are identified as having extremist vulnerabilities (including if you are under the management of Prevent).
- Priority Group 3. If you are identified by the probation service as at high or very high risk of serious harm to others and have complex health needs.
Please note that "complex health needs" means a combination of ideally six of the following: mental health concerns; risk of self-harm or suicide; learning difficulties or neurodivergence; current MAPPA level 2 or 3 nominal; screened into the OPD pathway; current substance use difficulties; and under an IPP sentence.
Additional consideration is given if you have: experienced complex trauma; are a current MAPPA level 1 nominal; have physical health needs or disability; currently or previously prescribed MMSA medication; have communication or speech and language needs; are described as 'institutionalised'; are a woman.
Across all three priority groups, we also take into consideration whether in the past or now you have experienced: unsuccessful transitions into the community, identified challenges in accessing treatment or care, or have limited involvement or no involvement from healthcare staff.
For our full inclusion and exclusion criteria, to ask clinical queries, or to request a referral form, please email the Enhanced Reconnect service.
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Further information
Areas we cover
We provide our service across Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol and Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.