Transcript Scaled Approach and the CJ&I Act 2008:Management Board

Please note before delivering this
presentation
Your management board may ask you questions relating to the implications of the changes for YOT
resources so you may want to consider the following before delivering this presentation:
● Have you undertaken a scoping analysis of workload and requirement availability?
● Do the results show an overall potential increase / decrease in relation to national standard
contacts?
● How do you wish to report these early results to the management board before introduction of the
Scaled Approach and YRO?
● Given the current economic pressure upon local authority finances, is the management board likely
to increase / decrease your resource allocation?
● If so, have you considered the following:
For increased contact demands
 Seeking increased resources
 Seeking a better fit between the YOT and other services (e.g. children’s services, youth
services, Connexions, other partners) to address national standards required contact levels)
including memorandum of understanding (MoU) / service level agreements (SLA) between
agencies endorsed by the management board
 Arranging for court to join Management Board if not already a partner
For reduced contact demand to offer
 Improving quality and content of assessment overall
 Improving quality of intervention contact
 Consideration of local targets to reduce reoffending
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Criminal Justice and Immigration
Act 2008 and the Scaled Approach
Implementation date: 30 November 2009
Management board briefing
●Insert date
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Purpose of the presentation
To outline for management board members:
● The key aspects of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act
2008
● The main provisions of the Youth Rehabilitation Order (YRO)
● The Scaled Approach and its implications for management board
members
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Key Aspects of the Criminal
Justice and Immigration Act
● Changes to the purposes of sentencing
● YRO
● Changes to Referral Orders
● Youth Conditional Caution
● Custody-related changes
● Anti-social behaviour, Youth Default Orders, Rehabilitation of
Offenders Act updates
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The YRO
● Simplifies juvenile sentencing structure
● Sentencing proposal tailored to individual risk and need
● A menu of interventions to tackle offending behaviour
● Provides robust community sentences
● Can be used on multiple occasions by adapting the “menu”
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What does it replace?
● Action Plan Order
● Attendance Centre Order
● Community Punishment & Rehabilitation Order
● Community Punishment Order
● Community Rehabilitation Order
● Curfew Order
● Drug Treatment and Testing Order
● Supervision Order
● Exclusion Order
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YRO Requirements
1. Supervision Requirement
2. Programme Requirement
3. Activity Requirement
4. Attendance Centre Requirement
11. Mental Health Treatment
Requirement
12. Intoxicating Substance Treatment
Requirement
5. Curfew Requirement
13. Exclusion Requirement
6. Education Requirement
14. Prohibited Activity Requirement
7. Residence Requirement (16/17 year
15. Electronic Monitoring Requirement
olds only)
8. Local Authority Residence
Requirement
9. Drug Treatment Requirement
10. Drug Testing Requirement (14 years
16. Unpaid Work Requirement (16/17
year olds only)
17. Intensive Fostering
18. Intensive Supervision and
Surveillance
old or over)
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Why a scaled approach?
● Audit Commission (2004) recommendation:
 ‘YOTs should make better use of Asset to determine the amount as well as
the nature of interventions with individuals using a scaled approach’
● Evidence says that interventions are more effective when:
 the level and intensity of intervention is matched to an assessment of
the risk of reoffending
 it is focused on the risk factors associated with offending
● Mirrors the adult sector tiered framework of interventions
● The YRO requires a more tailored and targeted approach to the proposals
made in court reports
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The Scaled Approach
● Interventions designed to:
 reduce the likelihood of reoffending
 reduce the risk of serious harm to others
 support the new sentencing framework
 tailor intervention to individual risk and need
● The project also aimed to ensure a coherent relationship between:
 (revised) National Standards for Youth Justice Services (‘must do’s)
 Key Elements of Effective Practice (‘what to do’)
 (New) Case Management Guidance (‘how to’)
 the Scaled Approach and YRO
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Minimum contacts for assessed
intervention level
Intervention Level
Contact per month for Contact per month
first 3 months
for rest of order
Intensive
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Enhanced
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Standard
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Anticipated benefits
More efficient and effective allocation of YOT resources
Fewer young people in custody
Strengthened case management across the youth justice system
Improved practice in assessment quality, pre-sentence reports and
intervention planning
Tailored interventions based on the young person’s risks and needs
Reduced reoffending
Reduced risk of serious harm
Increased public confidence
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Lessons from YJB pilot sites
Strategic level
● Ownership at management board and senior management level is essential
● Multi-agency working is crucial to meet multiple needs – mainstream
services need to be closely involved
● Close working with courts is essential to support the change
Operational level
● Good quality assessment is paramount, with performance management and
quality assurance supporting this
● Degree of cultural change should not be underestimated – staff need to be
brought along with this: ‘done with’ not ‘done to’
● Higher risk requires higher contact levels to support menu of requirements
● YRO contacts need to be targeted and imaginative
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Key Challenges
● Public Accounts Committee found for Adult Community Orders:
 Requirement options limited by availability/funding
 Delayed starts impacting on completion
 Geographical variation including enforcement
● For YOT and management board
 All YOT partners understand and support the complexity of YRO
requirements and the Scaled Approach
 Recognise that YOT will case manage orders but expect partners to
support contact activity
 Seek regular Scaled Approach and YRO performance management
reports, consider and forward plan to ensure resources match need
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Timeline of activities
Activity
Planned delivery date
Steering group
For completion locally
Contact level forecasting
For completion locally
Briefing to the local judiciary
For completion locally
Briefing to other key local partners
For completion locally
Staff training
For completion locally
Adaptation to YOT quality
assurance processes
For completion locally
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