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Offender Management – Devolution

and Local Commissioning

Kevin Lockyer

Managing Partner

Adaptus L.L.P.

31 October, 2016

@academyjustice

Academy forJustice Commissioning


Background to the Academy

• The Academy’s mission is to bring people together to share knowledge and best practice and to promote excellence in social justice commissioning

• The Academy was created in 2007 and now has 3200 cross sector members

• Services are designed to support the development of social justice commissioning and include nationwide events, elearning, commissioning themed learning groups and a website offering commissioning information

Consulting · Delivering · Collaborating · Sustaining

Offender management

Devolution and local commissioning


Questions

Do we have a national school service? Why not?

“Empowering the frontline and moving control away from managers and bureaucrats and directly to the frontline is an effective way of improving performance - holding them to account for the results they achieve, and to much stricter standards of financial propriety than we ever have with local-authority schools.”

HM Government, 2016


Questions

Does the Department of Health commission local health services? Why not?

“Commissioning is about getting the best possible health outcomes for the local population, by assessing local needs, deciding priorities and strategies, and then buying services on behalf of the population from providers such as hospitals, clinics, community health bodies, etc. It is an ongoing process, and CCGs must constantly respond and adapt to changing local circumstances. CCGs are responsible for the health of their entire population, and are measured by how much they improve outcomes.”

NHS Clinical Commissioners, 2016


Questions

So does it make sense to have a National Offender Management Service?


So what’s wrong with NOMS?

• Re-offending rates remain stubbornly high

• Structural inefficiencies

• The national tail wags the local dog

• NOMS may be part of the problem, rather than necessarily the source of the solution


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Structural inefficiencies

• Duplication

• Hand-off risk

• Age and location of the prison estate


The national tail wags the local dog

Prison

Name Baseline

In Use

CNA Operational Population

% pop to

in use CNA % Accommodation

CNA Capacity available

Altcourse 794 794 1,033 1,013 128% 100%

Ashfield 408 408 400 397 97% 100%

Askham

Grange 150 126 128 98 78% 84%

Aylesbury 410 410 444 377 92% 100%

Bedford 322 322 506 474 147% 100%

Belmarsh 781 781 906 877 112% 100%

Birmingham 1,093 1,093 1,450 1,443 132% 100%

Figures at December 2015


What the current system doesn’t do

• It doesn’t work as a single, coherent, end-to-end system

• There is an inevitable disconnect between national priorities and imperatives and local service design and implementation

• It remains the case that (in the vast majority of non-digital crimes) offending takes place locally and the best responses to offending behaviour are designed, organised and delivered locally


The politician’s syllogism


What do we want the offender management system to do

Be effective

By doing the right things with offenders, in the right place at the right time

Be accountable

To local people and communities who feel the impact of what the system does

Be good value for money

By making good choices about how to spend our money


An alternative system

Four components:

New commissioners

Independent prisons

New providers

New regulator


New commissioners


Independent prisons


New providers


New regulator


Kevin Lockyer Managing Partner

FRSA FInstLM

Eco Innovation Centre Peterscourt City Road Peterborough PE1 1SA

07769 658101

adaptusconsulting.co.uk

http://www.adaptusconsulting.co.uk/



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