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To enable providers of mental health services within the NHS, Local Authorities, VCS and civil society organisations (as agreed by local Crisis Care Concordat groups) to expand service for preventing mental health service users from experiencing a crisis, supporting those in crisis or helping those who have experienced a crisis to recover and avoid relapse through:
- Expanding provision of existing good quality interventions known to help reduce
the incidence of crisis amongst service users.
- Rolling out new and innovative digital technology aimed at supporting users to
avoid a crisis (e.g. by helping to improved self-management following a crisis).
- Enhancing or expanding NHS based facilities for responding to people in crisis.
This can include, but is not restricted to, Places of Safety for people who have been detained by police officers under sections 135 or 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
- Enhancing or expanding non-NHS facilities and services to respond to people in
mental health crisis that can help to prevent the need for admission, or compulsory admission to acute beds (e.g. crisis cafes and drop-ins, crisis beds, crisis lodgings with trained families).
Beyond Places of Safety - Objectives
Beyond Places of Safety Capital Scheme for supporting mental health crisis services
