A Tale of Two Projects

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A Tale of Two Projects
West Yorkshire

• Rochelle Harris
• Research Manager
• Sarah Jarvis
• Partnership Manager

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Background

• West Yorkshire Probation Area partnership
  projects
• Well established in house Research Team
  internal and external projects
• Innovation and good practice

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Project one

• Community one stop shop
• Increase offender compliance to order
• Facilitate offender access to support services
• Overcome barriers to desistance from offending

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Barriers

• Initial set up and negotiations not documented
• Monitoring and evaluation not written into
  contract
• Research team brought into project at later stage
• Different work culture

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Outcome

• Problems accessing interviewees
• No data collected
• When data requested aggregate
• Resistance to new data capture system
• Unable to evaluate partnership
• No evidence for contract extension

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Lessons learnt

• Relationship building
• Understanding perspectives
• Documenting meeting outcomes
• Early consultation with Research Team
• Monitoring built into project
• Monitoring built into contract

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Project 2

• Voluntary organisation
• Discussions of expectations of both parties
• Research team involved in initial discussions
• Data monitoring written into contract

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Taking stock

• Developed relationship with partner agency
• Established lessons learnt and knowledge gained
• Focussed on next steps
• Further work commissioned
• Understanding of perspectives

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Summary

• Consultation all parties, early, build
  relationship
• Clarify expectations contract, agreements
• Monitor
• Evaluate

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And theres more...

• Essential to disseminate good practice and follow
  up recommendations to ensure implemented into
  practice
• Feedback of evaluation to partners
• Dissemination of findings to all
• Follow up recommendations with commissioner

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Research Cycle

PROPOSAL, PLANNING, CONSULTATION
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Any questions?

• Research Manager
• Rochelle Harris (rochelle.harris_at_west-yorkshire.pr
  obation.gsi.gov.uk)
• Partnership Managers
• LeedsSarah Jarvis (sarah.jarvis_at_west-yorkshire.pr
  obation.gsi.gov.uk)
• Bradford-Pip Tibbetts
• (phillippa.tibbetts_at_west-yorkshire.probation.gsi.g
  ov.uk)
• WakefieldJulie Brereton,
• (julie.brereton_at_west-yorkshire.probation.gsi.gov.u
  k)
• Kirklees Liz Bramley (liz.bramley_at_west-yorkshire
  .probation.gsi.gov.uk)
• Calderdale Jerry Kyle (jerry.kyle_at_west-yorkshire
  .probation.gsi.gov.uk)