News
New South London integrated non-custodial service launched
We’re proud to be leading a newly-launched integrated non-custodial service across South London.
The South London Integrated Non-Custodial Liaison and Diversion Service will include liaison and diversion in all police custody suites, including Metropolitan, City of London, and British Transport Police, in addition to magistrates and crown courts.
Service pathways will also include a new Primary Care Men’s Mental Health Treatment Requirement Service, which will, for the first time in London, provide Probation with a greater range of community order options.
This new seven-year contract started on 1 November 2025 and is being delivered by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust for South London, North London Forensic Collaborative for North London and Waythrough, a UK registered charity, who will provide a pan-London Community Link Worker Service.
The service provides a specialist mental health assessment for people of all ages, genders and vulnerabilities (mental health and psychosocial concerns, neurodiverse conditions, substance misuse), designed to intervene at the earliest opportunity when a person comes into contact with the criminal justice system – typically at the point of police contact. The service model follows four stages: case identification, screening, assessment and onward referral.
The inclusion of Men's Mental Health Treatment Requirements recognises the links between mental health difficulties and many types of offending and risk, to provide a pathway to further treatment and recovery.
This service offers an alternative to a custodial sentence, with pre-sentence assessment and treatment as part of a community order. Men's Mental Health Treatment Requirements includes a range of psychological interventions such as psychoeducation, emotional skill development, cognitive behaviour therapy, and all interventions are trauma informed, co-produced and individualised.
The Non-Custodial Liaison and Diversion Service aims to play a crucial role in providing real-time, essential information to decision-makers in the justice system, particularly during the charging and sentencing phases for these vulnerable people.
With a unified approach and by fostering robust partnerships, this new service aims to improve outcomes for service users while contributing to wider goals of health equity and public safety within the Criminal Justice System.
Media enquiries
The communications team provides a point of contact for journalists to respond to all media enquiries.
We are happy to help journalists represent the trust accurately, so please do get in touch to ensure your facts and information are up-to-date before publishing your story.
Our media team is responsible for:
- Responding to media queries
- Arranging interviews with our nationally and internationally renowned experts who can talk about some of the trust’s specialist topics
For all media enquiries Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, please email oxl-tr.communications@nhs.net where a member of the team will review and action your request.
If you have an urgent enquiry outside of office hours or at the weekend, please contact our director on call via the Bracton Centre switchboard on 01322 294300.
Filming and photography requests
We receive documentary, location and broadcast filming requests on a regular basis – we consider all proposals on an individual basis and will try to accommodate proposals where possible, if appropriate.
No photography or filming is permitted without prior arrangement and agreement. Our patients always come first and we have a duty to protect their safety and confidentiality. Anyone found filming or taking photographs on the trust premises without the permission of the trust’s communications team will be asked to leave by the security department and may face prosecution.
Unless agreed otherwise, film crews and photographers must be accompanied by a member of the Communications Team at all times.
Contact: oxl-tr.communications@nhs.net
