Transcript Through the Gate Substance Misuse

London CRC
Partner Briefing
Dezlee Dennis
Substance Misuse Strategy
Manager
Overview
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Transforming Rehabilitation (TR)
London CRC
CRC Through the Gate Services
Substance Misuse Interventions
– Offender Rehabilitation Act
– Community / Suspended Sentence Orders
TR Rationale
• Need to reduce reoffending rates
• Investment and new ways of working required to
fund a rehabilitation requirement for all those
sentenced to under 12 months custody
• Greater flexibility to do what works
• Provide greater diversity of providers
• Market forces drive right behaviours if rewards
are based on successful outcomes
• Extension of supervision to under 12 month
cohort
Key Changes
New National Public Probation Service
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Established on 1 June 2014
In London, approximately 12,000 cases
Completion of all court reports
All MAPPA cases (community and licences)
All cases assessed as high risk of serious harm
(community sentences and licences)
• Small number of public interest cases
• Approved Premises and Victim Liaison Service
Key Changes
21 Competed Package Areas (CPAs)
London is one CPA. Our responsibilities include:
• Management of all medium risk and low risk
cases excluding MAPPA both in community and
custody
• Prison resettlement contract ‘through the gate’
• All accredited programmes excluding sex
offender programmes
• Integrated Offender Management
• Mentoring
• Restorative Justice
• Community Payback
London CRC – Who are we?
• MTCnovo is a joint venture involving:
• MTC (Management Training Corporation)
• novo – a consortium with a number of public,
private and third sector
• Shareholders including:
RISE
A Band of Brothers
Novus (nee The Manchester College)
Thames Valley Partnership
Amey
London CRC Key Changes
• Introduction of Cohort Model of Offender
Management
– Young males (18-25)
– Adult males (26-49)
– Mature males (50+)
– Women
– Mental Health and Learning Disability
• New ICT Systems
Through the Gate (TTG)
Where?
London CRC is the lead host provider in:
• Adult male locals: Belmarsh, Pentonville, Thameside, Wandsworth,
Wormwood Scrubs
• Trainers: Brixton, Feltham*, Highpoint*, Isis, Onley
• Female: Bronzefield*, Holloway*, Send* Downview
* ‘Shared’ with specified CRCs
TTG – Service Offer
• Universal resettlement screening for and planning at
front and end of custody
• CRC will deliver Basic Custody Screening Tool 2 to all
new admissions to local prisons – generating
resettlement plans for all prisoners
• Advice on housing, employment, debt and support for
sex workers and at risk of domestic abuse
• Resettlement co-ordination service in each prison
leading to Getting It Right programme to provide tailored
custody-community continuity and support
TTG Volumes
• 8 prisons in London receive 550 new admissions a week
- 2383 a month and 28600 a year
• 15 prisons in London- including two in the provinces
are sending the following home - after the
completion of the custodial bit of their sentence –
300 a week, 1300 a month.
• 15600 offenders are currently released into London each
year
• Estimated 20 young adults (18-25) released each week,
which is 86 a month and 1040 a year from two prisons
• Estimated 45 women released weekly- 195 a month and
2340 a year – from three prisons
TTG: Needs
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Accommodation
Employment
Education
Bank
ID
Debt
Sex work
Victim of DV
36%
30%
54%
31%
15%
42%
3%
21%
TTG Contracted Partners
• Penrose – Belmarsh, Pentonville, Wandsworth
Receptions – 10000 – releases 5000 annually
• Catch 22 – Thameside, Isis, Feltham
Receptions 4500 – releases 3240 annually
• Novus – Brixton, High Down (shared with Seetec),
Wormwood Scrubs, Onley, Highpoint
Receptions 6240, releases, 5520
Female estate – separate arrangements and the
resettlement work at Bronzefield, Send and Downview to
be dealt with as single entity
St Mungos working across all prisons on housing.
Offender Rehabilitation Act (ORA)
• Introduces two drug related conditions:
– Drug Appointment
– Drug Testing
• For Licence and Post-Sentence
Supervision cases
Background
• Purpose of these conditions:
– Support those with substance misuse issues
to achieve recovery
– Ensure continuity of treatment/support for
service users/offenders entering the
community
• Role of CRC and NPS offender managers
to recommend the condition/s to prison
governor
Drug Appointment Condition
• Makes drug appointment/s at a treatment
service mandatory
• Applies to any drug/s being misused
• Should only be applied where misuse
associated with dependence (not
occasional or recreational use)
• Misuse of drugs is linked to previous or
potential future offending.
Drug Testing Condition
• Misuse of drugs is linked to previous or
potential future offending
• Testing is restricted to Class A and B
• Testing undertaken and funded by
Probation
Breach of Conditions
• Can only apply for non-attendance and not for failing to
comply with treatment plans
• As with other licence conditions – unacceptable risks to
the public will result in recall or with post sentence
supervision – enforced through court
• No national standard requirement for treatment providers
to exchange information, as treatment voluntary but
good practice for exchange to take place
• Any information on engagement is for information
purposes and cannot be used as evidence of noncompliance.
• HOWEVER broader evidence of non-compliance should
lead to consideration of breach action.
Other Legislative Substance
Misuse Levers
• Criminal Justice Act 2003
– Drug Rehabilitation Requirements
– Alcohol Treatment Requirements
• LASPO 2012
– Alcohol Abstinence Monitoring Requirements
Contact Details
Dezlee Dennis
Substance Misuse and Interim Housing Lead
London Probation Community Rehabilitation Company
Email: [email protected]
Mob: 07464 647 392
Web: londoncrc.org.uk twitter: @LonCRCProbation