At any one time there are
around 60,000 offenders being managed by Youth Offending Teams, Young
Offender Institutes, the Probation Service and Adult Prisons in the
Region.
GONW
Community Safety work with partners, including Crime and Disorder Reduction
Partnerships (CDRP), National Offender Management Service, Office for
Criminal Justice Reform and the Youth Justice Board, to promote appropriate
strategies and activities and reduce harm caused by the most actively
prolific and damaging offenders.
The
Prolific and other Priority Offender (PPO) programme is a crime reduction
programme aimed at identifying and gripping the relatively small hard-core
of offenders who commit a disproportionate amount of crime and damage in
their communities. It is a cross-Government programme led by the Home
Office and evidences significant success in reducing re-offending, with a
29% reduction in the re-offending rate of the 2008/09 North West
cohort.
So what
next…..
Integrated Offender
Management builds on PPO, Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements
(MAPPA) and Drug Intervention Programmes (DiP) and aims to ensure that the
most damaging offenders receive appropriate intensity of intervention, that
gaps and overlaps are addressed and that areas make best use of available
programmes.
GONW is supporting North
West partnerships with the roll out of Integrated Offender
Management (IOM) (Lancashire
is the official IOM pilot
area).
GONW is also working with
NOMs in preparation for CDRPs picking up formal responsibility for the
reducing re-offending agenda from April 2010.
