House of Commons - Crime reduction policies: a co-ordinated approach ? Interim report on the Government's Transforming Rehabilitation programme - Justice Committee

Justice Committee - Twelfth Report
Crime reduction policies: a co-ordinated approach ? Interim report on the Government's Transforming Rehabilitation programme

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 14 January 2014.

Contents

Terms of Reference

1 The rationale and evidence base for the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms

Introduction to the Government's Transforming Rehabilitation reforms

The rationale for reform

Extending supervision to short-sentenced prisoners

Introducing competition to deliver more efficient and more effective rehabilitative services

Aligning the provision of community and custody based rehabilitative services

The evidence base for the reforms

Contracting out probation services

Payment by results pilots

The impact of mentoring on reducing re-offending

The scale and pace of the reforms

Assessment of risks

2 The transition from Trusts to Community Rehabilitation Companies and the National Probation Service

The target operating model

Dual oversight in existing and future practice

Local partnerships

Practicalities related to splitting the service

Transition to the new model

Agreement with the unions

Retention of skills and development of staff

3 The proposed payment mechanism

The application of payment by results to probation services

Potential implications for providers' behaviour

Binary vs. frequency metric

Incentivising investment and innovation

Financial sustainability

Testing the mechanism

Delay to implementation of payment by results

4 The creation of the market

Opening of competition

Developing a varied market

The size and maturity of the existing market

Capacity within the private, public, and voluntary sectors to bid as prime providers

Confidence in the tender process

Protection for second and third tier providers

Safeguarding against post-implementation issues

Probity and corporate renewal

Contractual flexibility

Contingency planning

Conclusions and recommendations

Published written evidence

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Prepared 22 January 2014