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NOMS Cymru Strategic Commissioning Plan 2010-2013 Strategic Commissioning Plan 2010-2013 1. NOMS Cymru Strategic Commissioning and Business Plan 2010-2013 Strategic Commissioning Plan 2010-2013 Foreword This commissioning and business plan sets out our three year direction of travel for offender services in Wales. It shows how we will drive value through our commissioning approach and as a result deliver better services for the people of Wales. During the winter we consulted with a wide range of stakeholders and partners about our commissioning priorities and our future intentions. The outcome of the consultation has enabled us to design the best possible integrated offender services with our lead providers in prisons, probation and key stakeholders. This will deliver services that:- protect the public by minimising the risk of offenders’ harm; punish offenders by ensuring they comply with the requirements of their sentence from the courts; reduce the risk of reoffending by managing offenders according to their risk; provide appropriate support to victims of offending behaviour; work collaboratively to help prevent the most vulnerable people from entering the criminal justice system. We already deliver good quality services in Wales. This experience provides us with an understanding of how to better deliver offender services in a more integrated way with our partners across the public, private and voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors. Our focus this year is to accelerate that delivery, and to be more responsive to local needs at community level. A strong theme emerging from the consultation and which is embedded in NOMS Cymru is the value of collaborative working. I will continue to look for opportunities in which NOMS Cymru, and our providers, can work more collaboratively with partners in both the Criminal Justice System (CJS) and in communities to deliver effective and efficient services. We will focus on working with partners and providers to make Wales a world- class exemplar in delivering offender services, preventing victims and changing offenders’ behaviours. At the time of the consultation the four probation areas were applying to form a Wales Probation Trust using the outcome of the Better Together project to help inform developments. The application was successful and from 1 April 2010 there is a single Wales Probation Trust. Strategic Commissioning Plan 2010-2013 The Wales Trust is our lead provider for the delivery of offender management services and will be formed of 10 Local Delivery Units (LDUs) across Wales. I will promote local commissioning as a way of stimulating innovation and to ensure that our services meet the needs and priorities of local communities. My team and I will be working closely with probation colleagues to help empower the LDUs to work with local partners to address specific issues and concerns in local areas. I will encourage probation’s LDU teams to provide a visible local presence in all communities in Wales and to be able to respond to local issues as they arise. The consultation also referred to the review that was underway to look at the prisoner population in Wales and to ensure we are making the best use of our prison estate in Wales based on: Maximising the number of offenders with home addresses in Wales in Welsh prisons; and Making the best use of our resources to change offending behaviour and protect the public. We are currently working with key stakeholders on the proposals coming out of the review, these are referred to in more detail in the plan. The intention is to put in place agreed changes during 2010-11. Our commissioning is aimed at continually achieving best value in the services we provide to meet our priorities. We will ensure that this is delivered through good quality offender management by managing offenders with the right offender service at the right time. To highlight this point we are working closely with probation to improve the range of provision and capacity to address the specific behaviour of those sentenced for domestic abuse. We are working to improve access to the most appropriate interventions, linked to assessed offender’s risk, and have increased probation’s resources to ensure this can be achieved. In addition we are focussing on breaking the reoffending cycle for those most at risk by improving the resettlement outcome for short-term Welsh prisoners returning to their communities in Wales. During the year we will be co-designing with key stakeholders an Offender Foundation Service that will build on best practice, for example lessons from the Swansea Chaplaincy project, the Transitional Support Scheme and other such initiatives. This will deliver a prisoner resettlement package and give Welsh communities confidence that people resettling there will be helped to reduce their risk of reoffending and to improve their sustained integration back into their communities. We will also be increasing sentencing options available to courts in Wales, based on the intensive supervision and control provision that is showing signs of success in our pilot areas. This would provide courts with a wider range of sentencing options to target those offenders who are more likely to change through community punishment and intervention, rather than a very short custodial sentence. 3 Strategic Commissioning Plan 2010-2013 Enabling offenders to recognise the impact on victims and the community of the decisions and actions they take is an important part of helping people become more responsible. We will continue to support restorative activities through our Community Payback Scheme and our victim liaison work through probation. Last year we committed to further developing services in a number of key areas. This commissioning plan takes that a stage further in relation to broadening availability and provision. This includes addressing the needs of female offenders in Wales, through the ongoing development of the Women’s Turnaround Service and putting in place appropriate interventions to address people’s alcohol-related offending, in custody and in the community. I want NOMS Cymru to become the public’s voice for delivering best value in offender services in Wales and to earn the public’s confidence through our successful management of offenders. Our continuing aim is to prevent victims by changing lives. YVONNE THOMAS Director of Offender Management, NOMS CYMRU 4 Strategic Commissioning Plan 2010-2013 Contents 1. Overall Performance during 2009-10 ........................................................... 6 2. Commissioning for 2010-13.......………………………………………………...7 2.1 Outcome of the Consultation…………………………………………………...….7 2.2 National and Wales Contexts………………………………………………………7 2.3 NOMS Cymru Core Business…………………………………………………...…8 2.4 Investing Resources to Manage Priority Offender Groups……………………..9 2.5 Commissioning Influencers……………………………………………………….10 2.6 Delivering Actions and Services………………………………………………….10 2.7 Service Reviews…………………………………………………………………...14 2.8 Finance…………………………………………………………………………......15 3. Business Delivery…….……………………………………………………….....16 3.1 Development of Custody in Wales……………………………………………….16 3.2 Forensic Psychological Services…………………………………………………17 3.3 Offender Learning and Skills…………………………………………………......18 3.4 Reducing Reoffending in Wales………………………………………………….18 3.5 Women’s Pathway…………………………………………………………………19 3.6 Attendance Centres………………………………………………………………..21 3.7 Developing Innovation Projects…………………………………………………..22 3.8 Promoting Equality in Prisons and Probation………………………………......25 3.9 Welsh Language Scheme………………………………………………………...26 Annexes A List of Consultees………………………………………………………………………….27 B Summary of consultation Responses……………………………………………………29 C Offender Population…………………………………………………………………….....34 D Offender Profile broken down by Priority Groups………………………………………41 E Equality Impact Assessment (EIA)……………………………………………………….56 F Glossary of Terms with standard definitions…………………………………………….59 1. Overall Performance during 2009-10 There has been real success in bringing down the frequency of adult reoffending in England and Wales. Comparing the 2000 and 2008 cohorts, the frequency rate of reoffending fell 15.9% to 155.5 offences per 100 offenders. The PSA 5 target from the Spending Review 2002 specified a 5% reduction in reoffending between 2000 and 2006; this target was met with an 8.3% reduction. The PSA 23: Making Communities Safer specifies a target of a reduction in reoffending activity of 10% by 2011. Using 2005 as the baseline year, there has been a 6.2% reduction in reoffending between 2005 and 20081. In Wales using information for offenders under probation supervision during the period October 2008 to September 2009 some 89%2 did not reoffend. We believe we can further improve our services through better integration of offender management with partners and key stakeholders. During 2009, courts in Wales sentenced over 38,000 offenders. 6,600 were committed to immediate custody and 13,569 into a community penalty3. The number of offenders sentenced to custody, in particular short term custody has decreased from 2008. Last year over 8 million hours valued at over £48 million were undertaken by offenders managed on Community Payback across England and Wales. Since December 2008 these offenders have been required to wear branded, high visibility jacket for public awareness purposes. A wide range of Community payback projects are currently being successfully undertaken across Wales. Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) support the assessment and management of the
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