Transcript Education, Training, Employment

Probation Celebration Day – Hungary
From Prison to Community
Title
Presenter Steve Pitts
PS plus
• 250 million Euro programme
• 42 prisons
• 15 probation Areas
• 60,000 offenders
• 44,204 outcomes
• Range of ETE services
Case Management/CATS
• Allocation
• Structured Assessment
• Motivation
• Prioritisation
• Community Integration Plan
• Case Assessment Tracking System
OASys 2004 – Offender individual needs
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60
Probation
Prison
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40
ETE:
Education,
Training,
Employment
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20
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Offending
ETE
Thinking
Lifestyle
Accom
Relationships
Drugs
Interventions
• Information Advice Guidance
• Employment education training
• Accommodation
• Beneficiary Access Fund
• Education
• ECDL
• Training
• Tools
Remands/Short Term Prisoners
• Minimum 21 days to serve
• Remand prisoners have
resettlement needs
• Hard to help groups, women,
young offenders, BME, sex
offenders, high risk offenders
• Soft outcomes & employability
Women
• Women holistic centred
• 6 Prisons
• Women have different priorities
• Accommodation emphasised
• Developing practice
• Successful ETE outcomes
Through the Gate
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Continuity
Outreach and outside
Case management
Sustaining employment, education
gained
• Furthering outcomes
• Mentoring
• Tracking through the gate on CATs
Standards
• Partnerships
approach/management
• Operational Standards
• Occupational Standards
• Contestability
Distance Travelled
•Showing the progress of one
beneficiary on the project.
•The black central line indicates
the starting position
•The grey line indicates the
current status of the beneficiary.
The movement is due to the
interventions of PS Plus staff
Achievement & Innovation
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Outcomes: 36,000
Development of effective Case Management
Working through the prison gate
Integrating motivational interview techniques
and accredited motivational training in an
employability programme
• Working with the challenge of remand and
short term prisoners
• Developing an effective standards framework
• Integration, and reduced re-offending
Contractual Relationships
• Share risk and ensure delivery of
outcomes
• Contract Management model
• Contract or partnership – happy
medium
• Performance/project management
Lessons from EQUAL - 2007
• Offenders specific
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Individuation/responsivity
Addressing multiple needs
Case management
Work retention/progression
Joined-up partnerships
Mainstreaming
• Organisational/International
– Poor awareness, coordination, evaluation, sharing
– Opportunity to identify and share best practice
– Opportunity to work strategically on practice & policy
Community of Practice
• Aim
• A European learning network to standardise,
exchange and transfer expertise between
Member States
• Target Group
• Community Sentence offenders & Prisoners
• Focus
• Assessment, training & employment, aftercare/transition management
CoP - Themes
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Diagnosis
Profiling, assessment
Education & employment competences
Social competences
Qualifications for employment
E-learning
Collaboration with employers
Support of mentors and families
Good practice development/organisation
development
• Diversity
Effective reintegration…..
• Targeted assessment of risk & need
• ETE in custody to improve work-related
skills and qualifications
• Information, guidance and employer links
• Access to employment, training or
qualifications on release
• Holistic/release transition support
• Signposting to agencies to remove
barriers
Thank you
Steve Pitts
International & Business Development Manager
National Offender Management Service (NOMS)
Ministry of Justice
UK
[email protected]
+44 (0) 753 02 64 211