making the links dr marcus roberts director of policy and membership, drugscope
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Making the links
Dr Marcus Roberts
Director of Policy and Membership, DrugScope
MAKING THE LINKS:POLICING AND CRIME PREVENTION
‘The clue is in the name. These will be Police AND CRIME Commissioners … now is the time for local authorities and the voluntary, private and public sectors to begin considering how they can play their part as a critical partner to the PCC in cutting crime’
Nick Herbert, then Minister for Policing and Criminal Justice, 2011
MAKING THE LINKS:DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
The urban area of Norwich has a population of 194,839.
Violence costs NHS £2.9 billion a year
Around half of violent offences are thought to be alcohol related (44% in 2010-11)
In around a fifth of violent crimes, the victims perceive the perpetrator as having been under the influence of drugs
"Women experiencing domestic violence are up to fifteen times more likely to misuse alcohol and nine times more likely to misuse other drugs than women generally“ WOMEN’S AID
MAKING THE LINKS:A PERIOD OF RADICAL CHANGE
PCCs PLUS …. Localism NHS reform Health and Wellbeing Boards Public Health Offender Health (NHS Commissioning Board) Work programme Transforming Rehabilitation Payment by results ….
A complex picture DsPH and HWB in upper tier and unitary
local authorities 15 local Public Health England Centres 27 local offender health teams 41 (and London) Police and Crime
Commissioners Plus work programme, Transforming
rehabilitation, Troubled Families
IMF Public spending projections
Community safety funding Fall in community safety funding from 2010-
11 to 2012-13 – 60% (Incorporation of DIP money from 2013-14)
Allocation of CSF for 2013-14 is £90m for 2013-14 (reduced from £123m in 2012-13)
CSF for Norfolk is £700,000
MAKING THE LINKS:VCSE and PCCs
We have the right relationships
We know what works We provide value for
money We have strong
community links We involve local people
in change We represent people
outside the mainstream We understand what
works with victims as well as offenders
A (really big) example of effective partnership work
DIP resultsHome Office figures for 2010-11 show that DIP:helped manage over 62,000 offenders into drug treatment;Led to 8,530 restrictions on bail requiring drug users to attend treatment;Led to 667 DIP conditional cautions diverting people from the criminal justice system and into treatment; andensured that 9,647 short sentence prisoners were picked up on release and managed into treatment.
