Transcript West Mercia Strategic Partnership

BUILDING A
WEST MERCIA
COMMUNITY JUSTICE
SECTOR
‘ONE STEP BEYOND’
David Chantler WMPT CEO
Rob Smith YSS CEO
AIMS OF THE DAY
 Strategic direction of West Mercia Probation Trust and Probation Trusts
nationally
 Introduction of the 1 Step Beyond concept
 The role of YSS as the strategic/preferred partner of West Mercia
Probation Trust
 Highlight business needs of each Probation LDU and other key
stakeholders
 Examples of current activity
 Agree next steps
YSS
 West Midlands regional charity supporting young people,
adults and families at risk of social exclusion in a wide range
of settings
 Significant experience of delivering bespoke services to
those at risk of offending in partnership with Youth
Offending Services, Probation Trusts, NOMS, Police, MoJ,
DWP and Local Authorities
 Originally established as a multi-agency project aimed at
providing community based interventions for young people
at risk of being sent to custody
YSS – STRATEGIC PARTNER ROLE WITH
WEST MERCIA PROBATION TRUST
 Delivering directly commissioned services by WMPT based
against a business proposal where required
 Commissioning services on behalf of WMPT to VCS
organisations
 Joint business development activity with WMPT and
influencing of local commissioning and policy
 Developing the VCS capacity to deliver services that meet the
needs of offenders across the reducing re-offending pathways
creating a ‘1 Step Beyond’ Community Justice sector
 Ensuring service user voice
THE COMMISSIONING MODEL
FROM THE ‘BOTTOM UP’
 No ring fenced pot of cash or a developed specification to go to the ‘market’
 Identify the business needs of Probation first - invite innovate solutions from the VCS





and other partners – multiple outcomes
‘Dragons den’ style meeting of stakeholders with the relevant VCS agency/agencies
involved
Identify initial resources to pilot an activity
Resources could be a wide mix of cash, seconded staff, contracts, income generation
activity, grants, equipment, office space, volunteers, matched funding, etc.
Agree a service specification and include in a standard contract template
Evaluation model built in at the start (action research) to use as a business case for
attracting resources, sustaining the service or scaling up investment from Probation
and/or other stakeholders
KEY FEATURES
 Co-location arrangements
 Skills and Knowledge sharing – breaking down barriers
 Potential access to specific criminal justice training
 Resource sharing & joint commissioning arrangements
 Direct access to Probation I.T. systems in YSS offices and also now at
Willowdene.
 Further work being undertaken to establish a VCS web based system
 Seconded staff arrangements
KEY FEATURES
 Access to strategic forums including LCJB partners, IOM strategy
groups, PCC
 Shared research and evidence base
 Redesign of services - Influence local commissioners and policy makers
 Joint business development activity with YSS and WMPT who have
access to the ‘target groups’ i.e.YSS Bradley Mental Health project
 Multiple income streams that are strategically aligned
 Enterprise/Commercial approach using activity to generate income
wherever possible
PROJECTS BEING DELIVERED THROUGH
1 STEP BEYOND ARRANGEMENTS
 Offender Mental Health – Lloyds TSB
 Health Prevention Trainers project & draft Counselling Service
 T2A with Barrow Cadbury Trust
 AIM partnership (WMPT, YSS, Ubique, BES, Fry Housing)
Accommodation Mentoring with WMCA and RYMCA
 Specified Activity requirement by Willowdene
 Senior Attendance Centre’s aimed at 16-24 year olds in Worcester
and Shropshire with Willowdene Care Farm
 YSS social enterprise activity – café, eco furniture making and
employment agency
PROJECTS BEING DELIVERED CONT.
 Mentoring for non statutory Shropshire IOM offenders and potentially




in Telford and Worcestershire
Enhanced Work Programme for short sentenced prisoners with ESG
and Ubique (PBR)
Next Steps IAG through Ubique
Flexible Support grant from DWP with The Fold, BES and YWCA
Women's service provision in Worcester with ASHA and a pilot
women’s programme in Telford run by AIMCare Farm Placements for
employment/training, drug rehab support and a specified activity
programme with Willowdene, Rite Enterprises and The Fold
SUMMARY - A NEW PARADIGM
 A big claim
 3:1 return on investment to date
 WMPT – core Offender Management (Courts, Reports, Risk,
Breach, Enforcement)
 Community Justice Partners do majority of ‘Offender
Supervision’
 Bottom up commissioning arrangements
 Joint business development activity & policy influencing
 Building a virtual ‘networked community justice organisation’
 Win/win/win - funding pots aligned, local priorities met, social
enterprises established, VCS capacity enhanced
WHAT NEXT?
Local LDU level meetings or area wide if appropriate
‘Dragons Den opportunities’ via YSS
VCS partners to develop business proposals for pilot
projects based on identified local LDU needs by
working in partnership, identifying shared resources
and income generation opportunities
Jointly influence local commissioners - the new
PCC’s, Local Authorities and key forums like IOM
CONTACT DETAILS
 [email protected] 07968 991124 - CEO
 [email protected] 07792 749086 – Director of Operations and







Development
[email protected] 07548 632123 – Operations Director
[email protected] 07989 304695 – Senior Operational Manager
[email protected] 01299 252304 Executive P.A. and Business
Support
[email protected] 07974153798
www.yss.org.uk
www.clinks.org VCS Criminal Justice infrastructure organisation
www.westmerciaprobation.org.uk – Head Office 01562 748375