A Community Safety and Criminal Justice Conference - 29th March 2010 :PROGRAMME

CDRPS: The New Statutory Duty to Reduce Re-offending

Monday 29th March 2009

Local Government House, Smith Square, Westminster, SW1

The Morning Programme

Stuart Douglass, Chair of Community Safety Advisors, Local Government Association

The Police and Crime Act underlines the importance placed on reduction of reoffending by central government. This address provides a view on the objectives of central government and how these changes will fit in with wider reform of community safety and partnership working. It will also examine the Government’s expectations of the new role of the probation service as a responsible body under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

The new duty on local authorities to reduce reoffending will mean close involvement with local national offender management programmes (NOMs). This address will look at the roles of the partners within offender management and how partnership working by Responsible Authorities can impact on reoffending.

Under the Police and Crime Act the Probation Service will change legal status from a co-operating body to a full responsible body as defined by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. This is at the same time as probation boards move to trust status. This address will examine the changes within the probation service and the impact of the probation service on CDRPs and partnership working.

Integrated offender management is a system that provides all agencies engaged in local criminal justice partnerships with a single coherent structure for the management of repeat offenders. Pioneer work in integrated offender management has been underway since 2008. This address will provide a police view on integrated offender management, the key police role in reducing reoffending and how partners can be incorporated into the integrated approach.

Scrutinising Partnership Work on Reoffending and Offender Management

Ed Hammond, Research and Information Manager, the Centre for Public Scrutiny (CfPS)
 

The changes in legislation will enable scrutiny of the Probation Service as a responsible authority. This will have implications for current scrutiny procedures. This presentation will look at the impact of these changes on current scrutiny arrangements.

This session will hear from a number of areas where offender management is already embedded in partnership work. The presentations will provide an insight into the way the new statutory duties will affect responsible bodies, the broadening of partnerships and the impact on the work of CDRPs.

Derbyshire County Council and Erewash Borough Council

Glenn Mason , Senior Probation Officer , Community Safety Unit, Derbyshire County Council
Phillip Wright, Director of Neighbourhood Services, Erewash Borough Council

The Derbyshire Reducing Re-offending Strategy was lead by the Derbyshire Probation Trust working closely with the Community Safety Unit at Derbyshire County Council. The eight Districts and Boroughs were engaged to ensure local delivery and to take account of local requirements and services. One of these Boroughs, Erewash Borough Council, is developing a local response to the strategy by working closely with the county council, the Probation Trust and other partner bodies to embed reducing re-offending into its partnership work.

Further case studies to be confirmed.