Youth Justice Plan 2007 to 2008
ACTION PLAN
PROVIDE INTENSIVE COMMUNITY SUPERVISION
Context:
The Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme is a joint City/County resource; line management and budget responsibilities continue to remain with the City YOS. The staff group consists of 15 advocates, a programme manager, YOS practitioner, substance misuse worker and Bail ISSP worker.
The programme has continued to provide excellent packages to court and maintained a credible alternative for courts to consider whilst ensuring a low rejection rate. ISSP provides feedback to sentencers at user groups, through the ISSP newsletter and at the ISSP Steering Group. Due to the demand for ISSP places a local agreement has been established to prioritise cases by targeting the Prolific and other Priority Offenders, those at high risk of offending and those whose offences are most serious.
The YOS works with the multi-agency Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Prolific and other Priority (PPO) Strategy Group to provide enhanced surveillance and supervision for the small group of young people who commit large numbers of offences. The YOS has a MAPPOM co-ordinator, part-funded by CDRPs, who attends the Local Offender Management Panels (LOMPs), and the Multi-Agency Prolific and Other Priority Management (MAPPOM) group to ensure the registration and oversight of individual offenders and who coordinates and develops enhanced services within the YOS. The YOS currently has 12 young people falling into the Catch and Convict cohort and 20 young people falling into the Deter cohort. The Home Office is revising arrangements for identification of and reporting on the deter cohort and we are awaiting the new requirements.
Achievements in 2006/07
- The YOS meets the requirements of the Leicestershire Premium Service Agreement for PPOs (local arrangements to deliver the national requirements). PPOs have priority access to ISSP, group work and other programmes and, in the event of non-compliance, their breach is fast-tracked through the court.
- 50% of those young people in the Catch and Convict cohort have not reoffended after 13 months; of those who have reoffended, 66% have done so less frequently and less seriously than during the period before being registered.
- 52% of those young people in the Deter cohort have not reoffended after 13 months.
- The YOS is negotiating with partner agencies to provide additional interventions for PPOs.
- 100 guests attended the 5th ISSP anniversary event in October. This resulted in the achievement of ISSP receiving significant media attention.
- The delivery of a presentation to the YJB ISSP Conference together with three young people on ISSP.
- The ISSP Manager delivered training to District Judges at a national training event
- ISSP has achieved a County completion rate of 71%. This is above the national average of 58% and above the 60% YJB target.
- ISSP achieved over 80% of its young people in ETE.
- The introduction of ISSP post custody tracking system is ensuring young people have regular contact with an ISSP advocate.
- Improved communication with the electronic monitoring provider.
- Gun and Knife crime workshop programme successfully introduced with the Police.
- ISSP has further enhanced its group work programme by including diversity, moral issues, social development, and music workshops.
- Improved successful completion rates for DTO cases.
- 45 young people completed the AXLR8 motorbike course. The motorbike course develops group work skills, work related skills, life skills and citizenship, health and Safety and project specific skills. They contribute to young people achieving their Youth Achievement Awards.
Focus for 2007/08
- Provide additional interventions for PPOs to reduce recidivism in this group of young people
- Meet the new identification and reporting requirements for the Deter group of PPO
- ISSP to continue to provide priority assess to PPO cases
- Monitor and ensure completion rates continue to improve.
- Ensure the high level of ETE performance on ISSP is sustained.
- Continue to strengthen the prioritisation of ISSP eligible cases to ensure targeting the right young people when oversubscribed.
- Continue to deliver the new AXLR8 programme.
- Further strengthen the group work programmes by ensuring that all young people are participating in programmes that meet their individual needs.
- Ensure that clients, their families and the community have a voice at all stages of the ISSP, by establishing an ISSP voice group.
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