Post on 31-Mar-2015
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Probation Celebration Day – Hungary
Title From Prison to Community
Presenter Steve Pitts
PS plus
• 250 million Euro programme• 42 prisons• 15 probation Areas• 60,000 offenders• 44,204 outcomes• Range of ETE services
Case Management/CATS
• Allocation• Structured Assessment• Motivation• Prioritisation• Community Integration Plan• Case Assessment Tracking System
OASys 2004 – Offender individual needs
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Offending ETE Thinking Lifestyle Accom Relationships Drugs
Probation
Prison
ETE: Education, Training, Employment
Interventions
• Information Advice Guidance• Employment education training• Accommodation• Beneficiary Access Fund• Education • ECDL• Training• Tools
Remands/Short Term Prisoners
• Minimum 21 days to serve• Remand prisoners have
resettlement needs• Hard to help groups, women,
young offenders, BME, sex offenders, high risk offenders
• Soft outcomes & employability
Women
• Women holistic centred• 6 Prisons• Women have different priorities• Accommodation emphasised• Developing practice• Successful ETE outcomes
Through the Gate
• Continuity• Outreach and outside• Case management• Sustaining employment, education
gained• Furthering outcomes• Mentoring• Tracking through the gate on CATs
Standards
• Partnerships approach/management
• Operational Standards• Occupational Standards• Contestability
Distance Travelled
•Showing the progress of one beneficiary on the project.
•The black central line indicates the starting position
•The grey line indicates the current status of the beneficiary.
The movement is due to the interventions of PS Plus staff
Achievement & Innovation
• Outcomes: 36,000• Development of effective Case Management• Working through the prison gate• Integrating motivational interview techniques
and accredited motivational training in an employability programme
• Working with the challenge of remand and short term prisoners
• Developing an effective standards framework• Integration, and reduced re-offending
Contractual Relationships
• Share risk and ensure delivery of outcomes
• Contract Management model• Contract or partnership – happy
medium• Performance/project management
Lessons from EQUAL - 2007
• Offenders specific– Individuation/responsivity– Addressing multiple needs– Case management– Work retention/progression– Joined-up partnerships– Mainstreaming
• Organisational/International– Poor awareness, coordination, evaluation, sharing– Opportunity to identify and share best practice– Opportunity to work strategically on practice & policy
Community of Practice
• Aim• A European learning network to standardise,
exchange and transfer expertise between Member States
• Target Group• Community Sentence offenders & Prisoners
• Focus• Assessment, training & employment, after-
care/transition management
CoP - Themes• Diagnosis• Profiling, assessment• Education & employment competences• Social competences• Qualifications for employment• E-learning• Collaboration with employers• Support of mentors and families• Good practice development/organisation
development• Diversity
Effective reintegration…..
• Targeted assessment of risk & need• ETE in custody to improve work-related
skills and qualifications• Information, guidance and employer links• Access to employment, training or
qualifications on release• Holistic/release transition support• Signposting to agencies to remove
barriers
Thank you
Steve PittsInternational & Business Development ManagerNational Offender Management Service (NOMS)Ministry of JusticeUK
steve.pitts@hmps.gsi.gov.uk+44 (0) 753 02 64 211