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MISSION “To reduce re-offending by working with offenders and young people at risk of offending to help them address their employability needs and progress them towards employment, education or training.”. Rationale

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  1. MISSION “To reduce re-offending by working with offenders and young people at risk of offending to help them address their employability needs and progress them towards employment, education or training.”

  2. Rationale By helping offenders and young people at risk to realise their potential for employment, we can reduce crime because the individual who finds and sustains a job is three times less likely to re-offend than if they are unemployed. Scotland’s Criminal Justice Plan, December 2004: “Supporting Safer Stronger Communities” “we know that an ex-offender is less likely to break the law if he or she has stable accommodation, supportive family relationships and employment opportunities. Alcohol and drug addictions, mental and physical health are also important factors”.

  3. Volume of Work • April 2005 to 31 January 2006: • 4463 clients started on programmes • 2687 completed • 1228 progressed to employment, education or training

  4. Services • A range of services is provided from 22 local units and in 7 prisons, including: • Employment and Guidance, Supervised Attendance Orders • in partnership with criminal justice social work • New Futures, Local Enterprise Company Contracts • in partnership with Scottish Enterprise • Progress2Work • in partnership with Jobcentre Plus and Phoenix House • Employability, preparation for release, Throughcare and Aftercare support • in partnership with Scottish Prison Service • One-off services: Arrest Referral, Structured Deferred Sentence, Diversion, Youth Crime Initiative, “Think Again” course.

  5. Core Services • Disclosure: Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 • Letters of Disclosure • CV preparation • Mock Interviews • Job Search Activities • Pre and Vocational Training • Basic Skills: Literacy and Numeracy • Work Skills: Attitudes and Motivation, Adaptability, Trainability and Reliability

  6. Criminal Justice Context • The Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2005: • Shared outcomes for prison and community based organisations: reducing re-offending; seamless transition from prison to community • Limited role of criminal justice system: Housing, Health, Benefits, Education and Training and Employment crucial: • National Advisory Body • Eight Community Justice Authorities • Area Plans for effective management of those returning to community from prison • Performance Measures

  7. Client Group • Aged 19 • Offending since age of 14 • around 12 previous convictions • history of school exclusion and truanting • no education or vocational qualifications • poor literacy and numeracy skills • substance misuse • lack of stable/suitable accommodation • periods of homelessness • lack of family or other support • low self-confidence and expectations

  8. Health Issues • Substance free or stabilised and mental stability are fundamental to any other work • 80% enter prison with a drug problem • 1 in 3 in prison admit to a drink problem • Majority disclose a mental health problem • about 1000 prisoners on methadone at any time (about 19000 elsewhere in Scotland).

  9. Challenges • SPS assessment good: multi-disciplinary and client centered • Patchy treatment: good progress in addictions, slower in mental health • Resources are key • Integrated care within and outwith prison needs improvement • finding a GP, not everyone’s priority • continuing support for addictions: fine for those on methadone • alcohol misuse needs more work • mental health problematic: except for those with a serious forensic problem who are on the Care Programme Approach (structured care).

  10. Case Study – Stuart’s Recovery “my recovery was a self-recovery in as much as I didn’t go through a treatment programme. Anger at myself, shame and wanting to get stronger are the things I feel motivated me most and also disgust at the level to which my life had sunk due to heroin”. The cost of addictions: “Families and communities get torn apart week in, week out, by these issues, which are everyday occurences”. “Many families may have turned their back on one who had done the things I had done and who would blame them? Not mine, though ..” “I have been clean now for 20 months and am doing great”: O.U. Health and Social Care course; Apex volunteer; trained group facilitator with S.M.A.R.T. recovery; SDF local user involvement group. “I have spoken to groups of teenagers about my experiences of drugs at health awareness days, to help educate them about making the ‘right choices’ in life, which I really enjoyed. I feel now that I am giving back to society for all that I took as a criminal and it’s a positive, rewarding feeling”.

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