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Changes to Rehabilitation Services for Offenders

04/02/2015

TRANSFORMING REHABILITATION

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

• f 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
• wnership 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-
• ffending.
• 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

• Brings together services through

a single structure.

• All interventions brokered from

the Hubs.

• “In-reach” case management,

with a solid community focus.

• Risk assessment is front-

loaded.

• Staff resources and capability

follow risk tiers. KEY BENEFITS

• Community resources are
• ptimised.
• Public protection and oversight.
• Support offenders through-the-

gate;.

• Effective support to resettled

prisoners.

• Maximise the contribution and

skills that the voluntary sector has 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

• pportunity 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

Responsible for delivering resettlement assessment on reception to most or all prisoners as well as delivering pre-release resettlement services to many prisoners; or

• Hosts

CRC will be responsible for preparing resettlement plans for all offenders who are their Allocated Persons and all remanded prisoners with home addresses in their CPA. Host Lead Providers

Cardiff Eastwood Park (females) Parc Prescoed (open) Stoke Heath Swansea

Host Providers

Altcourse Styal (females)

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 service Licence Post Sentence Supervision

Housing Employment Health Family Finance Mentoring Education Attitude Behaviour Thinking RJ

Additional Resettlement / Rehabilitation Activities

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

RESETTLEMENT COURSE

Accommodation

A short course on being a good tenant, how to source available, decent and suitable accommodation and how to reconnect with their family to ensure they have suitable accommodation on release.

Employment

Providing a short module on how to source appropriate employment options available on release, including linking to Work Programme and other employment related support services like ESF NOMS funded contracts for offenders and/or ESF DWP funded contracts for families with multiple problems.

Finance, benefit and debt

Providing a module on financial planning, advice and help on understanding how to access benefits prior to release to ensure integration back into the community is effectively managed.

Domestic violence

Providing advice, support and understanding of how to enable a positive relationship and signposting to specialist support for victims of domestic violence.

Female sex workers

Providing advice and support to enable female sex workers to move away from the sex industry into alternative employment. M A N D A T O R Y

RESETTLEMENT COURSE

Health

A short workshop on what is appropriate healthcare, how to access GPs, healthcare providers and treatment providers in the community to ensure the healthcare provided in custody can continue into the community.

Family / Relationships

A short course on how to build a range of support networks in the community to help with reintegration, assisted by mentors where appropriate.

A D D I T I O N A L

MENTORING

We will deploy a layered mentoring service to support offenders through the gate with resources targeted at those needing the most resettlement support. This will include a mixture of:

• Paid Mentors

Targeting offenders at the highest risk of re-offending on release i.e. those with severe substance misuse issues, mental health needs or those that are homeless

• Volunteer Mentors

Targeting offenders who have less critical needs but are still vulnerable and at high risk

• f offending will be assigned a volunteer mentor depending on their level of need.

POST SENTENCE SUPERVISION

• The Offender Rehabilitation Act creates a period of post-sentence

supervision (PSS) after licence for offenders serving custodial sentences of more than 1 day but less than 2 years. This means that virtually all offenders released from custody will be subject to at least 12 months supervision.

• The total supervision period (licence plus PSS) begins at the end of the

custodial part of the sentence and ends after 12 months from the date of

• release. In other words, the period of 12 months comprises the period on

licence plus whatever post sentence supervision is required to make up 12 months.

• This means that there is a changing ratio of licence/supervision as sentence

lengths increase.

What will be different?

WHAT WILL BE DIFFERENT?

• Clear and unrelenting focus on reducing re-offending.
• Strong delivery partnerships, bringing in the best of the voluntary sector.
• Co-location with delivery partners.
• Investment in ICT to give offender managers the tools they need to assess

and manage offenders.

• An unrivalled package of interventions and programmes, based on the best

available evidence of what works to reduce re-offending.

CHANGING LIVES, CREATING FUTURES

Working Links Employability

Reducing the levels

• f unemployment in

Wales

Wales Community Rehabilitation Company

Reducing the levels

• f offending

behaviour in Wales

Community regeneration of the most deprived communities in Europe

TRANSFORMING REHABILITATION