Scottish%20Prison%20Service

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Scottish Prison Service

• Rehabilitation The Way Ahead

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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

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Current Provision

• Sex Offenders CORE, Adapted, Extended, Rolling
• VPP
• Constructs
• CARE anger and emotion management
• SROBP Substance Use
• FOBP general offending in female population

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Strengths

• Programme integrity
• Managing drift
• Delivering high numbers,
• High quality delivery, supervision, treatment
  management

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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

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What would help

• Integrated approach e.g. education, employability
• Aggregated data to support provision
• beyond the gate

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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

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Better use of Prison staff

• Strengths controlling the prison environment
  communication with prisoners
• Weaknesses written communication objective
  assessment

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Would Desistance help?

• Whats good optimistic, multi agency, multi
  modal, has good face validity
• To improve a coherent practice framework,
  valid evidence base,

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How do we get there?

• 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

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Sex Offender Programmes

• 4 different programmes
• 4 selection procedures
• Little linkage with case management procedures
• Little by way of specialised input to Young
  offenders