The National Offender Management Service: Progress to date

1
The National Offender Management Service
Progress to date key themes for 2006/07

• Linda Jones
• Regional Offender Manager, East Midlands
• Tuesday 3rd October 2006
• Cheltenham Park Hotel, Cheltenham

2
NOMS Aims and Objectives

• The protection of the public
• The reduction of re-offending
• The proper punishment of offenders
• Ensuring offenders awareness of the effects of
  crime on victims and the public
• The rehabilitation of offenders

3
The NOMS Vision

• NOMS will
• Implement the orders of the courts and supervise
  offenders and those remanded in custody in such a
  way as to protect the public
• Provide a range of effective interventions and
  services that are designed to reduce re-offending
• Give offenders the opportunity to lead law
  abiding, productive and healthy lives
• Work in a way that treats offenders fairly and
  with decency

4
NOMS Target to reduce re-offending

• Reducing re-offending 2005-2011
• To deliver a 5 reduction in re-offending by
  adults and young offenders by 2007-08 compared to
  2002-03
• Leading to a 10 reduction in re-offending by
  2010- 11

5
How will NOMS achieve this?

• A Commissioning organisation
• Identifies offender need
• Purchases services from a range of providers
• SLAs with public sector prisons probation
  boards
• Contracts with privately managed prisons other
  companies
• Tests services in the market place
• Best quality
• Right provider for the right services
• Value for money
• Introduces legislation to introduce Probation
  Trusts

6
How is NOMS working?

• End to end offender management
• Offender Managers in the community
• Offender Management Units in prisons
• Needs and risk assessments
• OASys
• Resources follow risk
• Commission and co-commission services
• Work with other government departments, agencies
  organisations
• Reducing Re-offending Delivery Plans
• Alliances
• Corporate (Employers)
• Civic Society (Local authorities local
  organisations)
• Faith Voluntary and Community sectors

7
Offender Assessment System (OASys)

• Risk of harm
• Risk of re-offending
• Criminogenic need, including
• Accommodation
• Education, training employment
• Finance
• Relationships
• Lifestyle associates
• Drug abuse
• Alcohol abuse
• Emotional wellbeing
• Thinking behaviour
• Attitudes

8
The Offender Management Model

• Published version 1.1 of the model
• Reflects discussions with a wide range of
  colleagues and stakeholders about how the model
  works in practice including research from the NW
  Pathfinder Project
• Core Elements
• Four Cs continuity, consistency, commitment
  and consolidation
• Core correctional practice consists of 5
  behaviour clusters
• Firm, fair and clear use of authority
• Modelling pro-social and anti-criminal attitudes,
  cognition and behaviours
• Teaching concrete problem solving skills
• Using community resources (brokerage)
• Forming and working through warm, open,
  enthusiastic relationships

9
NOMS Vision for Integrated Offender Management

• Our vision of integrated offender management is
  of a single offender manager accountable for
  implementation of a whole sentence, whether
  served partly in custody and partly in the
  community or wholly in the community.
• Offender managers
• Assess risk and need
• Develop a sentence plan
• Allocate resources
• Work with others in custody the community to
  implement the plan
• Continuously assess risk
• Review and evaluate progress
• Enforce the order or licence when required

10
Reducing Reoffending Plans
2002 Social costs Custody failings 7
Pathways
11
National Regional Reducing Re-offending
Delivery Plans

• National Plans published July 2004 November
  2005
• 7 Pathways
• Accommodation
• Education, Training Employment
• Mental Physical Health
• Drugs Alcohol
• Finance, Benefit Debt
• Children Families of offenders
• Attitudes, Thinking Behaviour
• Regional Plans
• East Midlands added Public Protection Prolific
  Offenders
• Integrating Victims, Diversity, Voluntary
  Community Sectors

12
National Regional Reducing Re-offending
Delivery Plans

• Programme Board Pathway Leads, including
• Prisons
• Probation
• Government Office
• Police
• Youth Justice Board
• Learning Skills Council
• Legal Services Commission
• Equality organisation

• Health
• Courts
• National Treatment Agency
• Local Government Association
• Regional Housing Board
• Voluntary Community Sector
• Job Centre Plus
• Prison Service Plus
• Victim Support

13
How can you add value?

• Partnership/ collaborative approach
• Contribute to sentence plans
• Support delivery of sentence plans
  interventions
• Motivate prisoner
• Through the gate services
• What else?
• Working together to reduce re-offending