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LASPO Act Workshop: Custodial remands, analysis & alternatives

LASPO Act Workshop: Custodial remands, analysis & alternatives. Introduction - What we Have Done. Identified YOTs with a significant remands population; helped them to analyse their remand cohorts; developed action plans with them; developed the Remand Toolkit informed by users.

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LASPO Act Workshop: Custodial remands, analysis & alternatives

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  1. LASPO Act Workshop: Custodial remands, analysis & alternatives

  2. Introduction - What we Have Done Identified YOTs with a significant remands population; helped them to analyse their remand cohorts; developed action plans with them; developed the Remand Toolkit informed by users.

  3. Rising to the challenge • Whilst the three year average distribution model may present the least risk to YOTs, it is accepted that services may encounter difficulties in • sustaining or increasing existing reductions; • mobilising community based resources; • offering alternatives when there are patterns of serious offending; • assuring local authorities that costs can be cut. • However, where targeted practice development work has taken place, there has been an average reduction in remands to YDA of 18%.

  4. What’s in the toolkit?

  5. Initial analysis: Outline of the toolkit process

  6. Remand excel case level data tool • The YOT has completed and returned an excel remand data collection tool; • This provides key case-level information to enable analysis of the YOT’s secure remand population (depending on the chosen cohort); • With this analysis, it is then possible to devise strategies to reduce and prevent unnecessary secure remands; • We can: • identify trends amongst the cohort • begin to see whether any reductions in use of secure remands can be achieved appropriately • start to look at how this can be achieved

  7. The Remands Toolkit • Data Collection and Analysis Tool Example of Remand Data Collection Tool.xls

  8. Assessing need and improving practice • Having completed initial analysis using the excel tool, YOTs are then urged to select those Lines of Enquiry most relevant to local need; • This should help avoid trying to’ fix everything’ and help to focus on those areas most likely to yield results; • For each Line of Enquiry, the AID suggests options to help clarify the issue further, and a range of improvement actions to address it; • The AID has been developed:- • Using YOT practice and experience • Upon the basis of HMIP recommendations (where relevant) • Using collated research findings (where relevant)

  9. Exercise • With the person sitting next to you, thinking about your own YOT also, identify the issues you think came out of the data analysis for ………… YOT. • Refer to the AID document to prompt your thinking • 10 Minutes • Be Prepared to Feedback

  10. Kent • Kent YOT remand bed night’s use has decreased by about 21% between 2009/10 and 2010/11. • During this period the YOT has introduced a centrally co-ordinated monitoring and tracking system for bail and remand cases. • This has enabled the YOT to react more quickly and more effectively in addressing bail and remand issues and also to be more effective at second bail hearings.

  11. Sheffield • Sheffield YOT has decreased use of remand bed nights by 27% from 2009/10 to 2010/11. • After the case level data analysis the YOT carried out a thorough review of its bail support package and bail ISS provision. This has led to changes being made in: • How packages are presented in court; • Case management oversight for both bail cases and young people remanded to custody; • Central co-ordination for the tracking and monitoring of remand cases.

  12. Strategy and action plan to reduce costs of remands to YDA • Suggested themes • Relationships with the local courts • Tackling disproportionality • Provision of community-based alternatives & consortia arrangements; e.g. enhanced bail support, tracking and specialist remand fostering. • Further reducing length of secure remands • Improving assessments and bail information

  13. Lessons Learned • Very simple adjustments can have a significant impact; • Collation and analysis of data is important; • YOT presence in ALL courts that youths are before is essential; • Credible alternative to custody do influence court decisions.

  14. YOT next steps…Utilise your workshops.. • Having undertaken the analysis…… • Work through the Assessment and Intervention Document (AID) • Identify rationale for secure remand outcomes • Suggested analysis • Suggested activities for improvement • References to tools Ask for assistance as required, learn from the pilots….

  15. Any Questions?

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