Changes to TRANSFORMING Rehabilitation REHABILITATION Services for Offenders 04/02/2015
CONTENT 1. Introduction to the Wales Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) 2. Introduction to Working Links 3. Our vision 4. Our approach 5. How we will work in the community 6. How we will work in prisons 7. What will be different?
Introduction to the Wales Community Rehabilitation Company
INTRODUCTION TO THE WALES CRC On 1 June, the old Wales Probation Trust was replaced in June 2014 and a new Wales Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) was created. The CRC has responsibility for managing low and medium risk offenders, delivering the sentence of the court, providing prison resettlement services and reducing reoffending. A new National Probation Service for England and Wales is now responsible for managing high risk offenders. As part of the Justice Secretary’s Transforming Rehabilitation programme, contracts to run the new CRCs were let in December. The successful bidder in Wales was Working Links, which assumed ownership of the CRC at the start of February 2015.
Introduction to Working Links
INTRODUCTION TO WORKING LINKS As well as being new owners of Wales CRC, Working Links also took ownership of: Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire CRC; and Dorset, Devon and Cornwall DRC. Working Links was established in 2000 to deliver specialist and tailored services for people with varying and often complex needs to enable them to create better futures for themselves and their communities. Working Links have a unique mix of government, private and voluntary sector ownership providing the flexibility, scope and investment opportunities to consistently deliver positive futures for individuals and their communities. Working Links help hundreds of people a day who face social exclusion and have supported over three hundred thousand people with complex needs into work. There are synergies with the employability industry experience of Working Links. Statistics show employment reduces the likelihood of reoffending. 61% of people leaving prison re-offend within two years but if they secure employment that drops to 19%.
Our vision
OUR VISION To reduce re-offending and protect the public through: Combining the professional expertise of the CRC with innovation and fresh thinking from Working Links. Creating opportunities to work differently and more effectively. Creating wider and more effective delivery partnerships to drive down re- offending. Bringing in the best and most effective voluntary sector providers to support CRC delivery.
OUR VISION Delivering reductions in reoffending by: Effective service integration – right services, at the right time, in the right places. Coherent end-to-end offender journey, built on positive offender-case manager relationships. Exercising professional judgement to shape the solution. Protect the public through: Robust risk management procedures. Effective case management. Good communication with stakeholders. Deliver the sentence of the court by: Ensuring the right volume of services are available to meet sentence expectations. Maximising compliance through excellent case management & strong relationships.
Our approach
OUR APPROACH There are five key dimensions to our service delivery model: 1. Quality of relationships : Community-based case managers, responsible as far as possible for complete end-to-end offender journey. Offender manager as agent for change, building trusting and purposeful relationship with offenders. Maximising offender manager offender-facing time. 2. Service integration : Offender manager as service integrator – ensuring that the right services are delivered at the right time and in the right place. Co-ordinating delivery across supply-chain partners. Ensures other statutory services are aligned to the offender journey.
OUR APPROACH 3. Needs driven : Sentence, resettlement and rehabilitation plans based on effective early assessment, built on OASys with scope to exercise professional judgement. 4. Building social capital : Effective, needs-driven interventions designed to address offending behaviour and provide a real stake in communities, with employment, peer support and community engagement at their heart. 5. Service-user engagement : Creating forums for service-users to influence service development.
How we will work in the community
OUR ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY To deliver the sentence of the court for all low and medium risk offenders, allocated to the CRC by the National Probation Service. To protect the public. To achieve reductions in re-offending.
COMMUNITY JUSTICE HUBS – CORE OF OUR SERVICE KEY FEATURES KEY BENEFITS Brings together services through Community resources are a single structure. optimised. All interventions brokered from Public protection and oversight. Support offenders through-the- the Hubs. “ In-reach ” case management, gate;. Effective support to resettled with a solid community focus. Risk assessment is front- prisoners. Maximise the contribution and loaded. Staff resources and capability skills that the voluntary sector has follow risk tiers. in mentoring. Appropriate partnerships with already established services.
COMMUNITY JUSTICE HUBS – CORE OF OUR SERVICE
REHABILITATION ACTIVITY REQUIREMENTS (RAR) Allows a sentence to be given that targets the criminogenic factors most likely to have an effect on the way an offender thinks and behaves providing greater opportunity to desist from crime and reintegrate into the community. We anticipate 80% of community orders will have an RAR attached. A RAR can involve: challenging attitudes towards offending and ensuring offenders see the victim ’ s perspective; work to promote personal and behavioural change; monitoring and reviewing behaviour patterns; work to increase motivation and provide support to increase compliance; group work to address offending behaviour; and work to address substance misuse.
How we will work in prisons
OUR ROLE IN PRISONS To deliver resettlement services in the resettlement prisons identified by the Ministry of Justice. To develop resettlement plans for all prisoners released from these resettlement prisons, focusing on the key factors influencing effective community re-integration. To supervise prisoners post-release, in line with the requirements of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2013.
WHAT WE WILL DO IN CUSTODY Eight prisons have been allocated as Wales CRC Resettlement Prisons, that can be categorised as either: Host: Lead Providers Host Lead Providers Responsible for delivering resettlement Cardiff assessment on reception to most or all prisoners Eastwood Park (females) as well as delivering pre-release resettlement Parc Prescoed (open) services to many prisoners; or Stoke Heath Swansea Hosts CRC will be responsible for preparing Host Providers resettlement plans for all offenders who are their Altcourse Allocated Persons and all remanded prisoners Styal (females) with home addresses in their CPA.
KEY FEATURES OF RESETTLEMENT AND TTG Community-based offender managers. Dedicated prison-based resettlement advisors. Completion of Basic Custody Screening Tool Part 2 on reception. 12 weeks prior to release core resettlement programme, modular in delivery provided on a “roll on, roll off” basis covering key resettlement requirements including accommodation, employment and other priority needs. Additional resettlement interventions delivered according to need, either while in custody or post-release, to include offenders sentenced to under 12 months. Targeted use of peer and other mentors to assist effective engagement and good resettlement outcomes.
KEY FEATURES OF RESETTLEMENT AND TTG Resettlement / TTG Licence Post Sentence Supervision service Additional Resettlement / Rehabilitation Activities Mentoring Attitude Thinking Behaviour RJ Housing Employment Education Finance Family Health
RESETTLEMENT COURSE Modular resettlement course delivered on a rolling basis, with each one of the five modules being delivered one day per week, supported by mentors and one-to-one support sessions. Mandatory modules: Accommodation Employment Finance, benefit and debt Domestic violence Female sex workers Additional modules: Health Family / Relationships
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