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6 results foundAuthor: Pleace, Nicholas Title: Delivering Better Housing and Employment Outcomes for Offenders on Probation Summary: This research examined the delivery of suitable settled accommodation and paid employment for offenders on probation. The study explored good practice in counteracting homelessness and in helping offenders on probation into paid work, including the roles of education and training services and Jobcentre Plus. The research had a particular concern with the sharing of personal and sensitive information about offenders between organisations. Those practices and processes that facilitated and inhibited the proper sharing of information were a key focus of the research. The study involved fieldwork in six probation areas, a national level conference and consultation event and a small number of interviews with strategic level staff in central government. Details: London: Department for Work and Pensions, 2009. 86p. Source: Internet Resource: Research Report No. 610: Accessed December 16, 2010 at: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2009-2010/rrep610.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2009-2010/rrep610.pdf Shelf Number: 120524 Keywords: EmploymentHousingProbationers (U.K.)Reentry |
Author: Morrish, Dawn Title: A Health Needs Assessment of the Hertfordshire Probation Trust Caseload Summary: There is much literature about the health, particularly mental health of prisoners, but very little about the health needs of offenders in the community. Offender Health Care Strategies concluded that offenders in the community would have similar needs to prisoners, mainly physical health, mental health and substance misuse needs. Whereas, at the end of March 2010 there were 85,184 people (80,894 males and 4,290 females) in custody in England and Wales a rise of 2,200 from March 2009. Amongst the remand population, the largest change since March 2009 by offence group was for drugs offences, which were up by 10%. One of the biggest requirements for community orders and suspended sentence orders from Q4 2008-Q4 2009 was for alcohol treatment, up by 13%. Compared to sentenced offenders there were 241,504 offenders being managed in the community by the National Probation Service as at end December, 2009. For Hertfordshire Probation Trust this figure was 3,487 compared to a prison population of 768 at HMP The Mount, Hertfordshire’s Category C male prison. If offender health is to be effectively addressed, the focus needs to widen to address offender health needs rather than emphasis on health care for prisoners. In the community many offenders seem to have difficulty accessing mainstream health services, and tend to overuse Accident and Emergency centres, but have very little provision of preventive health care or health promotion. The physical and mental health care needs of offenders in the criminal justice system have long been subject to calls for reform. Improving outcomes for this group is important both in terms of re-offending rates and successful rehabilitation. Offenders are subject to considerable health inequalities. They are much more likely to experience mental health problems or have a learning difficulty and are more likely to have problems with drugs and alcohol. Details: Hertfordshire, UK: Hertfordshire Probation Trust and National Health Service Hertfordshire, 2011. 41p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 10, 2011 at: http://www.ohrn.nhs.uk/resource/policy/NeedsassessmentHertfordshireProbation.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.ohrn.nhs.uk/resource/policy/NeedsassessmentHertfordshireProbation.pdf Shelf Number: 121693 Keywords: Alcohol AbuseCommunity-based CorrectionsDrug Abuse TreatmentHealth CareMental Health ServicesProbationers (U.K.)RehabilitationSubstance Abuse Treatment |
Author: Robinson, Emma Title: Achieving Learner Retention in Basic Skills: findings from a study of offenders in West Yorkshire Summary: The general education level of those coming before the courts is low. It is estimated that ‘nearly 60 per cent of prisoners have poor literacy and communication skills and as many as 75 per cent have poor numeracy skills’ (Uden, 2004, p.9). These are levels of skills low enough to exclude them from 96 per cent of available jobs. Fifty-two per cent of men and 71 per cent of women prisoners have no qualifications at all, compared with 15 per cent of the general population. The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) published ‘Education and Training for Offenders’ in 2003 which charted a change in the ways that education and training are delivered in prisons. Whilst its initial focus was on prisons and prisoners, the focus of attention has broadened to concern offenders more generally. Indeed, there has been an increasing acceptance within the Criminal Justice System of the role of education and training in reducing re-offending. A number of recent Basic Skills Pathfinder Projects carried out between 1999 and 2002 tested out procedures for offenders on probation including screening of clients for basic skills needs, assessment, provision and arrangements to encourage take-up of basic skills opportunities by offenders. Findings from the pathfinder showed that 50% of the sample had no qualifications at all and only 26% had a level 2 qualification or above (McMahon et al, 2004). Approximately 35% of the sample were assessed as likely to have a basic skills need. Another important finding from the evaluation was the attrition that occurred at every stage of the process, resulting in only a small number of offenders receiving basic skills tuition. The highest rate of attrition occurred following the screening process with only 19% of the sample subsequently attending for assessment. This has led to an increased emphasis on the role of case managers in attempting to ensure attendance during the course of supervision. The Probation Service now plays a key role in identifying the learning needs of individuals, the provision of information and advice, and in referral to appropriate learning opportunities. Similar to the ‘core curriculum’ delivered in prisons with its associated targets, the Probation Service concentrates overwhelmingly on basic skills for which it has agreed the following targets in a Service Delivery Agreement: · 6,000 starts on basic skills programmes and 1,000 qualifications (at any level) for 2002/3 · 12,000 qualifications (2,000 at Entry level, 8,000 at Level 1 and 2,000 and Level 2). This report is the culmination of 12 months’ research into basic skills provision in West Yorkshire (April 2004 – March 2005). A range of internal and external projects have been drawn upon which include: · An internal research project looking at the implementation of DISC’s mentoring service for offenders. · An internal report examining the provision of basic skills for diverse offender groups, staff awareness of basic skills provision, and staff training needs. · Results from a series of internal throughput reports focusing on four particular offender groups: female offenders, minority ethnic offenders, offenders residing in hostels and drug misusing offenders subject to a Drug Treatment and Testing Order (DTTO). · An internal evaluation of the early roll-out of Guided Skills Learning in West Yorkshire. · Results from an external research project led by the National Research and Development Centre for adult literacy and numeracy (NRDC). West Yorkshire was one of two pathfinder areas involved in the Maths for Life: Talking up Numeracy offender pathfinder. · Key findings from two internally commissioned improvement projects set up in response to a low conversion rate for basic skills starts to awards. The projects comprised: a Learning Improvement Project (LIP) focusing on meeting the area awards target for 2004/5, and an improvement project in Leeds West focusing on the district awards target. Details: West Yorkshire, UK: West Yorkshire National Probation Service, 2005. 39p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 10, 2012 at: http://www.westyorksprobation.org.uk/pdfs/BasicSkills_2004-5_FullReport.pdf Year: 2005 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.westyorksprobation.org.uk/pdfs/BasicSkills_2004-5_FullReport.pdf Shelf Number: 126280 Keywords: Educational ProgramsProbationers (U.K.)Rehabilitation ProgramsRemedial Education Programs |
Author: Briggs, Sarah Title: SMARTstarts Programme Conditions Pilot – Evaluation Report Summary: Within West Yorkshire, several Performance Improvement Projects have been established to employ the skills and knowledge of various staff members in order to generate ideas and make recommendations for change. These projects harness knowledge of ‘what works’ in other probation areas and districts within West Yorkshire. The ‘SMARTstarts conditions pilot’ is one such project aimed at making the processes from order commencement to programme start ‘smarter’ and more efficient in order to increase the number of offenders starting programmes. At the point of commissioning this work, the main premise was that the sooner an offender can be offered a start date, the more likely they are to start the programme attached to their order, thus targeting starts whilst their motivation is likely to be high. Since then, other subsidiary aims have come to light such as identifying a clearly defined process, and identifying and removing barriers to programme starts. However, this piece of work did not set out to evaluate these. A ‘Process Summary Chart’ (see appendix 1) detailing these new processes has been piloted in Bradford and Calderdale from 30th June to 22nd September 2003. The chart is designed around a National Probation Service target of getting offenders from order commencement to programme start within 20 working days. The programmes included in the pilot are: Enhanced Thinking Skills (ETS), Drink Impaired Drivers (DID), Addressing Substance Related Offending (ASRO), and Duluth Domestic Violence (DV). The overall intention is for the processes to be rolled out to the remaining districts within the area over the next few months. Details: West Yorkshire, UK: (West Yorkshire) National Probation Services, 2003. 35p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 10, 2012 at: http://www.westyorksprobation.org.uk/documentlist.php?type=1&year=2003 Year: 2003 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.westyorksprobation.org.uk/documentlist.php?type=1&year=2003 Shelf Number: 126281 Keywords: Cognitive Behavioral SkillsEnhanced Thinking SkillsProbationers (U.K.)Rehabilitation Programs |
Author: Gelsthorpe, Loraine Title: Deaths on Probation: An Analysis of Data Regarding People Dying Under Probation Supervision Summary: The study, Deaths on Probation, reveals that between 2005 and 2010, 2,275 men and 275 women died while under probation supervision. Of these, just a quarter were reported as having died of natural causes, with suicide accounting for at least one in eight and alcohol issues one in thirteen. Evidence in the report suggests that probation staff are recording deaths simply as a bureaucratic exercise rather than to help them understand why people are dying under their supervision and what can be done to prevent future deaths. One in eight deaths under supervision was listed as of ‘unknown cause’, suggesting valuable information is being lost. The report calls for a return to the core values of what it means to supervise people who have committed crime: making bureaucracy less of a priority and making looking after some of the most vulnerable people in our society their number one objective. This means not just helping them to turn their backs on lives of crime, but also caring for their welfare needs and giving them some hope for the future. The report highlighted specific examples of people who had been let down while under supervision. These included a man murdered after not having been given permission to travel out of an area where his life was known to be under threat and a suicidal homeless man who was found dead in a park three weeks after his release, despite the fact multiple agencies knew of his problems. Details: London: Howard League for Penal Reform, 2012. 56p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 21, 2012 at: http://d19ylpo4aovc7m.cloudfront.net/fileadmin/howard_league/user/online_publications/Deaths_on_probation.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://d19ylpo4aovc7m.cloudfront.net/fileadmin/howard_league/user/online_publications/Deaths_on_probation.pdf Shelf Number: 126398 Keywords: Probation OfficersProbation SupervisionProbationers (U.K.) |
Author: Brooker, Charlie Title: An Investigation into the Prevalence of Mental Health Disorder and Patterns of Health Service Access in a Probation Population Summary: This study was funded by an East Midlands Research for Patient Benefit grant. The research is divided into three stages, each of which is presented separately below. Stage 1 aimed to investigate the prevalence of mental health disorders, substance misuse, needs and patterns of service access amongst offenders under probation supervision in Lincolnshire, through one-toone clinical interviews with a stratified random sample of offenders. A sub-study was included in this stage which investigated the use of a brief screen for ‘likely caseness’ of Personality Disorder (PD) (SAPAS) with a probation population. This is reported here as ‘Stage 4’. Stage 2 investigated the extent to which probation staff were aware of, and recording, offenders’ mental health and substance misuse problems, and the nature of any action taken by the probation service to address these issues. In Stage 3, qualitative interviews were undertaken in order to investigate the experiences of probation staff when trying to facilitate access to health services for offenders, and the experiences of offenders trying to access health services. This stage of the study aimed to highlight models of good practice in service provision for offenders, and barriers to service access for this hard-to-reach group. This stage also includes recommendations on how access to services could be improved for offenders under probation supervision. The over-arching aim of the research is to pilot a methodology for assessing the prevalence of mental health disorder and substance misuse amongst offenders under probation supervision. In addition, the study aims to gather data which will be shared with a multi-agency steering group and used to inform both probation practice and health service provision for this hard-to-reach group. Details: Lincoln, UK: University of Lincoln, Criminal Justice and Health Research Group, 2011. 172p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 22, 2013 at: http://www.cepprobation.org/uploaded_files/RfPB-final-report-17-9-11.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.cepprobation.org/uploaded_files/RfPB-final-report-17-9-11.pdf Shelf Number: 128431 Keywords: Drug Abuse TreatmentDrug OffendersMental Health ServicesMentally Ill OffendersProbationProbationers (U.K.) |