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Third (online) Mental Health expert group meeting
On 27th January 2021, CEP held its third Expert group meeting. This was an online meeting and experts from eight different European jurisdictions participated the meeting.
Third (online) expert group meeting 2021
The programme of the expert group meeting included a presentation from Professor Charlie Brooker, Honorary Chair based at Royal Holloway, University of London. He presented a series of research studies on Mental Health and Probation undertaken largely at the University of Lincoln and at Royal Holloway, University of London. He continued by presenting a new research he is going to develop together with the Council for Penological Co-operation (PC-CP) working group of the Council of Europe on Mental Health in Probation and asked expert group members for feedback on a survey for this research.
The report of this meeting together with Professor Charlie Brooker presentation can be found here.
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