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Probation in England and Wales: Transforming Rehabilitation
STREAM Final Conference – 24th Oct 2014
Natalie WoodierTransforming Rehabilitation Programme, Ministry of Justice
Introduction
Drivers• Reduce
Reoffending• Innovation &
efficiencies • Diversify
Suppliers
Structure•National Probation Servicers (NPS)
•Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRS)
Legislation•Supervision•Licence Conditions•Breach Process
Next Steps• Announcement
of preferred bidders
• Contract management
Summary of the Reforms
• 35 Probation Trusts = 1 National Probation Service (NPS) and 21 Community
Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs)
• NPS will retain ultimate responsibility High Risk offenders for public protection, working in
partnerships.
• The majority of low and medium risk offenders will be managed by CRCs who will be
independent providers from the voluntary/private sectors or mutual.
• The CRCs will come from a diverse range of organisation encompassing private, public,
volunteer sector and mutuals. This will help to drive innovation, enable efficiencies and
community involvement.
• Legislative changes including; extending supervision to sentences under 12 months.
• Resettlement prisons – to improve the way offenders reintegrate back into communities
• Payment by Results (PBR) - a part of payment for providers based on success of
reducing reoffending.
The Drivers
Sustained Reduction in Re-offending
The best from all
sectors – supply chain safeguards
Incentives to reduce
reoffending – payment by results
35 Probation Trusts
The New Structure
Pre 1 June Post 1 June – NEW STRUCTURE
NOMS NOMS
National Probation
Service
Sub-contracts
21 Community Rehabilitation
Companies
Supply chain
• High ROSH offenders• Advice to court• Decisions on breach
• Low / Medium ROSH offenders
Sub-contracts
Sub-contracts
Supply chain
Transforming Rehabilitation – Contract Package Areas
London (31,000)
Derbyshire , Nottinghamshire & Leicestershire (12,000)
Northumbria (5,000)Cumbria and Lancashire (8,000)
Merseyside (6,000)
Greater Manchester and Cheshire (16,000)
Staffordshire and West Midlands (16,000)
Wales (14,000)
Essex (6,000)
Norfolk and Suffolk (5,000)
South Yorkshire (6,000)
West Yorkshire (10,000)
North Yorkshire, Humberside and Lincolnshire (8,000)
West Mercia & Warwickshire (4,000)
Thames Valley (6,000)
Gloucester, Wiltshire & Avon and Somerset (9,000)
Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgshire and Hertfordshire (10,000)
Devon, Cornwall, and Dorset (6,000)
Hampshire (6,000)
Durham & Cleveland (6,000)
Surrey, Sussex and Kent (11,000)
National Probation Service (NPS)
The NPS is part of NOMS, its key functions are:
• Managing offenders who pose the highest risk of serious harm;
• NPS is structured into 7 geographical divisions;
• Providing advice to courts on sentencing and risk assessment;
• Working in partnership with CRC’s in cases of escalating risk;
• Key decisions on breach and recall;
• Retaining statutory victim liaison and;
New Probation Regions – Example
8
2
13
West Yorkshire CRC
South Yorkshire CRC
Northumbria CRC
Durham & Tees Valley CRC
N Yorkshire, Humberside &
Lincolnshire CRC
NPS North East
What will Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) do?
• Responsible for managing low and medium risk of harm cases
• Deliver the sentence of the court for each offender allocated to them
• Required to identify change in risk and where there escalation, refer the case to the
NPS.
• CRCs will be required to ensure that all sentence requirements or licence
conditions/supervision requirements are delivered for the offenders they manage.
• Opportunity to engage with most offenders before their release so they can provide
“through the gate” support – working with resettlement prisons
• The package of rehabilitative support CRCs provide to each offender will be for them
to determine, meeting core principal requirements.
Offender Rehabilitation Act
• For offenders serving custodial sentences of more than 1 day but less than 12 months
it extends the release on licence conditions
• Creates a new supervision period for all offenders released from custodial sentences
of less than 2 years. This allows for a range of requirements to be imposed on the
offender to support them moving away from crime. Every eligible offender will receive
12 months of supervision in the community after release.
• Creates a new process for magistrates’ courts to deal with breaches of the
supervision period. It includes up to 14 days in custody as well as fines, unpaid work
and curfews – that can be applied where a breach is proved.
• Creates a new requirement for offenders who are supervised in the community after
release to attend drug appointments.
Next steps
• Final stages of competitions – announcement of preferred bidders
• Finalise implementation of contract management
• Mobilisation of contracts starts at contract signature
• Once a sale in completed the Through the Gate model goes live after a
mobilisation period
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