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Peter Persson - Corrections Victoria David Arblaster – Diversity Unit, Department of Justice

The Development of a Disability Action Plan for a Correctional System – The Challenges and the Lessons Learnt. Peter Persson - Corrections Victoria David Arblaster – Diversity Unit, Department of Justice ACSO 3 rd Forensic Disabilities Conference September 2007. Getting There but First …

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Peter Persson - Corrections Victoria David Arblaster – Diversity Unit, Department of Justice

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  1. The Development of a Disability Action Plan for a Correctional System – The Challenges and the Lessons Learnt Peter Persson - Corrections Victoria David Arblaster – Diversity Unit, Department of Justice ACSO 3rd Forensic Disabilities Conference September 2007

  2. Getting There but First … the Final Result Pre 1 January 2007

  3. Outline • Context • About Corrections Victoria • Disability Action Plans • Template • Lessons learnt • Process • Environmental Analysis • Governance • Development • Implementation

  4. Context About Corrections Victoria • Corrections Victoria is part of the Department of Justice, which also includes courts and police • Corrections Victoria manages: • 53 Community Correctional Services locations • 11 public prisons & oversees the contracts of 2 private prisons • Prison population – 4,100 • Offenders on Community-Based Orders – 8,000

  5. ContextDisability Action Plans • Victorian Government requirement for all government departments to develop DAP’s • Department of Justice Disability Action Plan 2005-2008 • Few examples nationally and internationally of DAP’s in a correctional setting

  6. ContextDisability Action Plan Template • Organisational environment and a favourable climate for implementation (Innes 2006) • Senior management commitment • Develop a formal Disability policy • Promote sense of ownership • Allocate Action Plan implementation responsibilities to specific individuals • Allocate priorities and ensure careful financial management • Don’t over-commit • Integrate Disability Action Plans with other plans

  7. Lessons Learnt: Process • Lengthy development and consultation process • Long term enterprise

  8. Lessons Learnt: ‘Environmental’ Analysis • Template for scan • e.g. Mark Moore’s Strategic Triangle • Social Policy hooks • Low priority in Government agenda

  9. Lessons Learnt: ‘Environmental’ Analysis • Criminological trends(Garland 2002) • Forensic Disability Specific(Rockowitz 1989) • Definition of the Population • Relationship Issues • System Issues • Offender Issues

  10. Lessons Learnt: Governance • Challenge in having to access to expertise(Correctional, disability, other) and decision-makers • Possible solutions - working group(experts) and project board(decisionmakers)

  11. Lessons Learnt: Governance …continued • Increased operational involvement • Structure of the organisation is a factor(centralised easier – decentralised harder?)

  12. Lessons Learnt: Development • Join it to a theoretical basis • Need a vision • 3 levels of the Plan • What have we got now/quick fixes • Medium term goals • Vision – inclusion and equity

  13. Lessons Learnt: Development …continued • Natural tendency – least resource intensive solution • Interplay between social policy, human rights and finite resources

  14. Lessons Learnt: Development …continued • Consider the scope and content of plan – this drives ‘who’ the key players are • Risk management – a double edged sword?

  15. Lessons Learnt: Implementation • Guard against the relaxation factor • Importance of quick ‘wins’ • Key operational champions to advise on roll-out

  16. Lessons Learnt: Implementation…continued • Key operational champions to advise on roll-out • Get the “plan” out of head office • Need to ‘test’ and ‘re-test’ assumptions

  17. Conclusion • Environmental analysis important • Long term proposition (one plan after another) • Use templates or previous plans (HREOC) Vision Governance Implementation Development Test-Retest

  18. The Far Side of Forensic Disability

  19. The Development of a Disability Action Plan for a Correctional System – The Challenges and the Lessons Learnt Peter Persson - Corrections Victoria David Arblaster - Diversity Unit, Department of Justice ACSO 3rd Forensic Disabilities Conference September 2007

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