Civic Society Alliance to address reoffending

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Civic Society Alliance to address
re-offending Heather Munro Chief
Officer Leicestershire and Rutland Probation Area
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Our journey

• Why us?
• Train leaving the platform
• Offenders rather than offending
• What did we do as a demonstration area?
• Mapping arrangements, sharing best practice,
  engaging practitioners

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A busy highway

• Other civic alliances
• Other alliances
• Traffic jams partnerships take time and effort

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Engaging others

• We have the offenders a disadvantaged and
  excluded group
• We can share our information about what offenders
  needs are
• Reducing offending needs the resources of others
• Winning hearts, minds and purse strings

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Moving on....

• Initiatives continue to develop
• LAA targets
• The new structure
• Local Reducing Re-offending Delivery Plan
• Community Justice
• Trust status
• Beacon bid

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The toolkit

• Works at a number of levels
• Can be updated
• Contributions welcome
• Workshop

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3 key messages

• Its hard work and it doesnt stop
• The opportunities are huge
• Still thinking about the 3rd!

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Civic Society Alliance to address
re-offending Alistair Reid Service Director
(Safer and Stronger Communities) Leicester City
Council
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• Why do we need a Civic Society Alliance?
• the economic argument
• the social inclusion argument
• the public duty argument

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The Economic Argument
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• For Leicester City - 74m
• The annual running costs of 86 Primary Schools or
  20 Secondary Schools
• The annual running costs of 317 Family Centres
• The provision of nearly 3.4 million hours of Home
  Care
• The annual running costs of 270 libraries
• The annual revenue costs associated with the
  residential care of 2,900 elderly people in homes
• The provision of nearly 16 million mobile meals

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The Social Argument When I got out of prison
this time - I had nowhere to live, nothing so for
the first ten days I was living on the streets
and if youve got no money the easiest choice for
you is to commit crime.
(Male, 31, Asian
Pakistani)
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The Social Argument
Housing, finding employment, training even. A big
problem Ive had is ID - I never had no ID. I
have no passport. On this framework thing Im on
now my Key Worker shes getting some applications
so I can get a bank account cos I havent even
got a bank account. (Male, 37, White British)
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The Social Argument
Because when I first come out of prison, I come
out of prison with a habit. I went in there with
a habit, got myself clean and they sent me to a
prison where it was just full of drugs and
temptation - and a bad phone call and I started
dabbling again and before you know it, I ended up
with a habit. So I come out with a habit. (Male,
34, White British)
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The Social Argument
My main reason for committing crime when I done
it was to fund a drug and alcohol addiction. All
my crimes were drug and alcohol related. (Male,
38, White British)
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• Public Duty Argument
• Section 17 Crime and Disorder Act
• Power of Well Being
• Community Leadership
• Local Targets
• Reparative Justice

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• How does the Alliance fit with existing work?
• Awareness of the potential for mainstream service
  delivery
• Focus on offenders as opposed to offending
• Cohesive local strategy

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• How do we create one locally?
• A review of national and regional policy and
  practice
• An audit of existing local partnership
  arrangements and links to address re-offending
• A review of local delivery including unpaid
  work schemes, PPO and DIP schemes etc
• A series of consultation focus groups with key
  stakeholders
• Specific focus groups around exploring
  offenders access to leisure services

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• Process milestones
• Identify key champions in local government,
  prison, probation and youth offending teams.
• Nominate a local lead for the Alliance
• Seek high level support and sign up at chief
  officer/ executive level of the Local Authority
• Hold a stakeholder engagement event
• Audit and identify existing relationships and
  activity to identify what you are already doing
  well and note any gaps.
• Pull together strands of existing activity and
  work to fill any gaps through the production of a
  local reducing re-offending strategy.
• Agree the governance structure

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• Some learning points.
• Allow time to build relationships
• Do not assume familiarity with the work or each
  other
• Language and terminology
• Build on whats there
• Challenge the status quo
• Identify a common goal
• Recognise the journey

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• Next Steps
• Agree the local delivery structures in each
  authority
• Agree the Reducing Re-offending Plan
• Share the learning and good practice that exists
  already
• Through our involvement in the Community Justice
  Imitative explore additional ways of engaging
  local communities in this agenda

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