Transcript Scottish Prison Service

Scottish Prison Service
Rehabilitation – The Way
Ahead
A potted history of SPS Programme
Interventions
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1997– STOP
1996- Cognitive Skills introduced
1998- Anger Management,
1999 -2004 -PSST, DRPP, SOTP
2005 – VPP
2006 - Constructs
Current Provision
• Sex Offenders – CORE, Adapted, Extended,
Rolling
• VPP
• Constructs
• CARE – anger and emotion management
• SROBP – Substance Use
• FOBP – general offending in female
population
Strengths
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Programme integrity
Managing drift
Delivering high numbers,
High quality – delivery, supervision, treatment
management
Painted into a corner
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The “need” for programmes
Linked to performance targets
Completion linked directly to progression
“what works”? – Nothing else
What would help
• Integrated approach e.g. education,
employability
• Aggregated data to support provision
• “beyond the gate”
A potted recent history of SPS
case management
• 1991 sentence planning – utilised the role of the
“personal officer”
• 1998 – Sentence Management – objective
assessment
• 2004 – core + - recognition of short term prisoners
• 2005 – ICM – multi agency, case conference format
• 2005 – LSCMI and SA07
Better use of Prison staff
• Strengths – controlling the prison environment
communication with prisoners
• Weaknesses – written communication objective
assessment
Would Desistance help?
• What’s good – optimistic, multi agency, multi
modal, has good face validity
• To improve – a coherent practice framework,
valid evidence base,
How do we get there?
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Identify specific costs
Utilise internal markets (or successor)
Incorporate alternative models
Evidence based
Delivery within operational parameters
Completion in the community
Streamline provision and selection
Sex Offender Programmes
• 4 different programmes
• 4 selection procedures
• Little linkage with case management
procedures
• Little by way of specialised input to
Young offenders