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NOMS Co-Financing
Organisation
Social Enterprise Consortia Building
Procurement Round 2012
Bill Spiby (NOMS CFO Lead Manager – Corporate)
NOMS
Who we are
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS)
was created as an Executive Agency of the Ministry
of Justice in July 2008
What we do
Our job is to protect the public and reduce
reoffending by delivering the punishments and
orders of the courts, helping offenders to reform
their lives and in doing so prevent future victims of
crime
NOMS (cont.)
• Specifies and commissions Offender Management
services
• Directly manages 125 public sector prisons (and a
directly employed workforce of c48,000)
• Contract manages 12 private sector prisons and a
range of system-wide contracts (such as Prisoner
Escort and Custody Services (PECS); Electronic
Monitoring; Bail Accommodation Contract)
• Contract manages 35 Probation Trusts and Third
Sector Providers
• Manages system-wide service delivery
NOMS CFO
• A key objective for NOMS is the reduction of offending
• Helping ex-offenders secure employment significantly impacts
upon NOMS ability to meet that objective
• Can only be achieved through strong partnerships with public,
private and VCSE sector organisations
• Co-Financing programme allows NOMS to fund activities to
engage and motivate offenders thus increasing their ability to
access mainstream services and employment opportunities
CFO Main Programme
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A single prime provider or consortia lead per region
Fixed case management model
Long contracts (4 years)
Delivered through CATS
Link to Offender Management arrangements
70:30 community/custody split
Challenging targets for women and disabled
Mentoring, social enterprise and help for veterans
Intensive delivery to extremely hard-to-help groups
Offender Target Group
DWP…
Unqualified,
unskilled
Skilled,
qualified but
unemployed
and unemployed
SFA…
Unskilled, unqualified,
de-motivated, drugs /
alcohol issues,
behavioural issues,
debt problems,
accommodation
problems.
NOMS CFO
Hard to help group who are currently
not able to access mainstream
provision, and are therefore unable
to return to the labour market
Hard-to-Help Groups
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North East – Lifers
North West - Women with low-level mental health needs/Belief in Change
Merseyside - as North West
Yorkshire & Humber - Islamist extremists/sex offenders
South Yorkshire - Sex offenders
East Midlands - Dual Diagnosis Offenders/female sex workers
West Midlands - Travellers/show people
East of England - Female sex workers
South East - Offenders with dependent families (particularly 18-24s)
London – Veterans/young people involved in gang activity/prisoners
released following sentences served abroad
• South West - Young offenders transitioning into the adult justice system/
Belief in Change/Eden House
• Cornwall – link to SW sub-group participants
NOMS CFO. Where we fit
Drugs
Interventions
Counselling
Prison
Education
CFO Case Worker
Action Plan
Offender focused
employment
services
Alcohol
Interventions
Housing
Voluntary
Organisations
Mentoring
Mainstream
The NOMS CFO Process
Offenders are assessed as
having significant barriers to
employment (accommodation,
drugs, health issues etc)
The NOMS CFO Case Worker
creates an action plan with the
participant which aims to address
their multiple barriers.
The Case Worker begins work on
the action plan, making referrals
where appropriate and
completing actions themselves
The Case Worker continually reassesses the action plan to make
sure that it is appropriate and
achieving its aim.
As the barriers to employment
begin to be addressed, the case
worker will begin to focus on
moving the participant into
employment or education.
At the end of the project participants either
enter employment, education or are more
able to engage with mainstream
employment initiatives
NOMS CFO
in numbers
project overview
demographics
40,896 participants started so far
4434 employment outcomes claimed
223 of which were for NEETs
8356 hard education/training outcomes
224,526 soft outcomes achieved
1 in 4 participants are non white-British
30 years old on average at time of starting
1 in 8 female participants
1742 veterans
1818 aged 50 or over on starting
assessed needs
59% have used illegal drugs
16,806 did not complete their formal school education
1 in 3 have outstanding debts or fines
1 in 3 would consider self employment
1269 are carers for a friend or relative
72% do not have a valid, current driving licence
1 in 9 have mental health problems
3061 have problems using numbers
European Social Fund
• ESF affords unique opportunity to trial innovative
approaches to resettlement
• Complex administrative / monitoring requirements
• Non-negotiable
• Purchasing restrictions
• Participant eligibility
• Resettlement focus
• Additionality
Conditions
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Contract not grants
Defined outputs
Defined deadlines
Regular reports
Quality of provision
Might be worthwhile but is it in the contract
Might be in the contract but is it worthwhile
Not just delivery focus
Inform future delivery
Evaluation
Monitoring and Support
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Procurement specialists
Social Enterprise Compliance Managers
Programme of audit and support visits
We will help and advise with regard to monitoring
requirements
• We will withhold and/or reclaim payments if non
compliant
• Responsibility lies with consortia lead
• NOMS views this as a partnership