Brief Insight 12: Inverclyde Alcohol & Drug Partnership: Turning Point Scotland: Early help in custody team
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Summary
The Early Help in Custody Team provides a peer support approach of early help to people in police custody in Greenock police station. They work closely with police colleagues while remaining independent of the justice system. Based in Inverclyde, the service is available to people living in other local authorities who are in Greenock police custody.
The team support people all year round from 10am to 10pm with a base located within the police station to provide rapid response where required. The service delivers harm reduction interventions and wrap around support through an assertive outreach model designed to fulfil MAT standards 3, 4 and 5.
Please send us an email at his.alcoholanddrugs@nhs.scot if you:
- have a question about our programme or resources
- would like to speak to a member of our team about our work