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Delivering through Co-operative Advantage. West Mercia Probation Trust. Where we want to be - Hold the Budget, grow the provision. Provision in Community. West Mercia Budget. Underlying Principles. Public good, not public monopoly Not everything needs to be done by “us”
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Delivering through Co-operative Advantage West Mercia Probation Trust
Where we want to be - Hold the Budget, grow the provision Provision in Community West MerciaBudget
Underlying Principles • Public good, not public monopoly • Not everything needs to be done by “us” • Others have expertise • Others have access to resources • Others can add value • “think global, act local” i.e. systemic change driven locally
Dependence – Probation lead agency VCS dependent on funding risks distorting aims • Independence– VCS are the experts, alliances with private sector, bids for OM work etc. • Interdependence – we all have a place at the table, we hold money for the public good; it needs to be brought together with wider sector skills, experience, aims.
Potential and Actual Offender Supervision/Intervention Activity • Specified Activity Oder, currently delivered through RITE CIC, with additional SAOs to be delivered by similar bodies including The Fold • Enhanced Offender Supervision, currently delivered by YSS, a Social Enterprise in the charitable sector
Adult Attendance Centres, currently delivered by YSS and Willowdene Farm working in partnership, Willowdene is a Social Enterprise • Employment, Education and Training, currently delivered by YSS • Mental Health Interventions, currently delivered by YSS, funded by Lloyds TSB Trust
Psychological Assessment, currently provided by FPP, a private sector consultancy • Volunteers and Mentors, currently provided by YSS • Transition to Adulthood Service, currently funded by Barrow Cadbury Trust, delivered by YSS
Drugs Services, jointly commissioned from CRi • Women’s Residential Service, to be delivered by Willowdene/RITE from next year.