Raising standards and delivering new approaches

1. Raising standards and delivering new approaches

2. Raising standards and delivering new approaches in resettlement Marie Orrell Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons

3. H.M. Inspectorate of Prisons • Provide independent scrutiny of the conditions for and treatment of prisoners and other detainees. • Also have a statutory responsiblility to inspect all immigration and removal centres along with short term holding facilities • Chief Inspector is independent of Prison Service • Research Team plus approximately 28 inspectors • 5 teams

4. The four tests of a healthy prison • Safety • Respect • Purposeful Activity • Resettlement NB Each prison receives a scored assessment against each test

5. Offender profile from SEU 2002 • At least 1 in 5 have hidden disabilities • 52% of men and 71% of women have NO qualifications • 67% are unemployed • Compared to an 11-year old: 80% have fewer writing skills, 65% lower numeracy skills and 50% read less well • 60-70% are using drugs • 13 times more likely to have been in care • 14 times more likely to have been unemployed • 10 times more likely to have truanted • Only 5% of children remain in the family home if the mother is sentenced to imprisonment

6. Accommodation Attitudes, Thinking and Behaviour Children, Families and Community Support Drugs and Alcohol Employment, Learning and Skills Finance, Benefit and Debt Physical and Mental Health National Reducing Re-offending Delivery Board

7. Partnership • Work under pathways is delivered by public, private and voluntary sector • Must be ‘joined up’ to achieve results • Some pathways especially critical: • Employment can reduce risk of re-offending from 33-50% • Stable housing can reduce re-offending by more than 20%

8. Accommodation • NFA • Services available to support prisoners on reception and preparing for release • Becoming a better tenant • Wrap- around projects- e.g. employment and accommodation • Peer advice projects • Links to Community Chaplaincy projects for vulnerable prisoners

9. Attitudes, thinking and behaviour • Range of accredited and non-accredited interventions available • Citizenship • Staff and mentors as ‘pro-social models’ • Empathic support- peer advisors • Active participation in sentence planning • Self value and achievement is recognised • Support through transition

10. Children and families • Ease of contact- phone calls and regular visits • Visits- family days, homework clubs, Storybook Dads, environment • Services for families- finance, accommodation, support on release • Family involvement with sentence planning • Family celebration of religious festivals • Awareness of special needs- links to local faith/ethnic communities

11. Drugs and alcohol • Transition to relevant services • Appropriate support • Freedom in funding • Problems with reduced funding for IDTS

12. Employment, learning and skills • Effective links with employers- local and strategic • Meeting skills gaps-increasing employability • Release on temporary licence • Preparation for employment • Maintaining learning • Ongoing support for employers

13. Finance, benefit and debt • Support on reception and release • Opening bank accounts- being ‘job ready’ • Paying off arrears • Money management • Discharge packs for release

14. Physical and mental health • Referral/handover to GP’s • Medication on release • Referral to specialist services • Support- mentors/volunteers

15. What makes it happen? • Manageable population size, close enough to home • Capacity to move prisoners to relevant interventions • Agencies that can be flexible and respond quickly to emerging need • Quality services that aren’t ‘led’ by personalities • Non-judgemental approach • Adequate, long term funding • Strategic understanding of ‘fit’ i.e. into RRDP • Projects that can move to scale quickly • Ownership by strategic boards e.g. LSP’s, LAA’s • Evaluation

16. Useful websites • www.inspectorates.justice.gov.uk/hmiprisons • www.noms.homeoffice.gov.uk • www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk