Transcript Improving Offenders Access to Accommodation

Improving Offenders Access to
Accommodation
Sandra Sutton
Partnerships Project Manager
Warwickshire Probation Area
Jane Grant
Strategic Housing Manager
Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council
Barriers to accessing
accommodation
• Obstacles faced by offenders
– Perceptions and Stereotype
– Lack of ID
– Lack of housing in general
– ‘Barring’ by some LA’s from housing register
• Data Protection and information sharing
e.g. risk assessment information and
agency protocols
What is currently working
• CARS – single point of contact for
offenders in Warwickshire
• Offender Forum in Nuneaton and
Bedworth
• Supporting People services specifically for
Offenders
• Multi-Agency Public Protection
Arrangements (MAPPA)
Continued...
• Partnership working
– Warwickshire Housing Drug Support Scheme
– Public Service Agreement (PAS16)
– Warwickshire Probation Learning Partnership
– Supporting Prolific and Priority Offenders
– MARAC
Developments
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PSA 16 Partnership working to get best results
CDRP Probation statutory role from 2010
Services for women
Probation Commissioning to support West
Midlands Regional Prisons and Probation
• Working with local Housing Strategy Managers
• Move On Protocol in Warwickshire
• Directory of Accommodation Support Services
for Women in the region.
Further Developments
• Supporting People Strategic Review of
Offender Accommodation along side
Substance Misuse.
• Common housing referral form across the
region.
• Floating Support
• Accommodation based support
• Training for Housing options staff
• MAPPA training
Future Developments
• South West Region Single Gateway
initiative. Meeting the safer communities
agenda.
• Housing division disclosure policies –
closer working arrangements between
Probation and Local Authority.
Workshop Discussion
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Challenges
Initiatives and best practice
The wider picture