Probation Celebration Day – Hungary

Title From Prison to Community

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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Offending ETE Thinking Lifestyle Accom Relationships Drugs

Probation

Prison

ETE: Education, Training, Employment

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

• 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

• 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– 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, after-

care/transition management

CoP - Themes• 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 PittsInternational & Business Development ManagerNational Offender Management Service (NOMS)Ministry of JusticeUK

steve.pitts@hmps.gsi.gov.uk+44 (0) 753 02 64 211