Assessing the case for wider CJS devolution in the West Midlands - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Assessing the case for wider CJS devolution in the West Midlands Claire Dhami, Programme Lead @claire_dhami

Public Service Reform in the West Midlands VISION AND OUTCOMES Added value of regional working: • Negotiating national policy flexibility and change • New or devolved funding • Shared learning • New evidence • Workforce development • Highly specialist skills • Economies of scale • Developing new approaches and models • Common infrastructure WORKSTREAMS Multiple Employment Health and Criminal Enablers of GOVERNANCE complex and skills wellbeing Justice PSR needs Annual Free up Research 2017 Adult Ed Mapping the savings for Plan Commissioning investment in issue. PSR Board DELIVERABLES Framework prevention . Information Mental Health : sharing and Developing Work and Evaluate the • Placement and Support Identify analysis. the Health “New savings • Workplace Wellbeing PSR Executive through “blueprint” Programme Chance” pilot • Criminal justice Workforce economies of • Approaches to care development scale Social The most Employment Emotional PSR Working vulnerable Mental Health Support Pilot Apprentice Best start in life young people . pathfinder levy Group • support for children proposals Mentoring for Productivity and families to enable Review young people & Skills every child to have a with complex youth Justice PSR Review Commission good start in life. needs. Tool Digital enablers

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Criminal Justice Context Budget and spend: • £536m policing • £57m on central costs including Court • Early estimations suggest Youth Offending Service provision in cash terms c.£15m a year is spent in the 7 local authority areas (excluding the cost of crime, Looked After Children etc.) • £15m spent on offender management programme (but this is only a share of total spend) • £20bn public services in West Midlands – there is no accurate assessment of how much of this links to offending and criminal justice and the above may overlap • Average adult prisoner costs around £35,000 per year, • A criminal trial for violence against the person costs £15,000 • Each new entrant to the youth justice system costs around £3,600 in the first year. Facts and figures: • WMP arrest c.61,000 people a year • C.8,000 of these are women. • 206 young people received custodial sentences in 2015/16 in the West Midlands. • West Midlands has lowest reoffending rates in England - £17m investment in IOM has prevented £33m criminal justice costs • Strong evidence of partnership across Local Authority areas in adult and children offending • Strong commitment at strategic level to responding to prevention agenda • Police and Crime Commissioner has committed to reducing reoffending as a part of the Policing Plan for the West Midlands • strong commitment at senior level to develop an effective model to intervene at earlier stages and a willingness to make things better This is an opportunity for the West Midlands to be a catalyst for change and to reform and develop a “whole systems approach” to offending and youth justice.

Criminal Justice Focus – Young People Taylor Review The children who remain in the youth justice system are those that display the most challenging and ingrained behaviour and have the most complex needs. Education must be central to an effective youth justice system. We need a resolute focus on giving children in trouble with the law the skills, qualifications and aptitudes to lead successful, law-abiding lives. More thinking is needed on the initial responses of the police and other agencies to crimes committed by children. We must look to successful alternative provision schools to establish a new approach. The best alternative provision schools combine rigorous teaching with the therapeutic approach needed to ensure children are able to engage fully in learning. The review’s ambition is for smaller custodial establishments which are created as secure schools...located in the regions th at they serve. Issues around integration of youth offending services with wider youth services, children's services and youth offending team organisation. Consider the feasibility of devolving the budget and commissioning responsibility for youth custody in order to pool resources, integrate functions and commission services more strategically. It is better by far if the problems which lead a young person to offend are dealt with early and, where possible, outside the criminal justice system…promote investment in targeted preventative work and closer integration between prevention and youth offending services. Diversion of low-level offenders through information responses such as restorative justice or providing access to specific support services.

Criminal Justice Focus – Women Offenders Government Policy Ensuring the provision of credible, robust sentencing option in the community. Ensuring the provision of services in the community that recognise and address the specific needs of female offenders. Through the transforming rehabilitation programme, supporting better life management by female offenders ensuring all criminal justice system partners work together to enable women to stop offending. Review of the women’s prison estate to meet the needs of female prisoners with the right design, location and facilities. Develop community employment initiatives to make the maximum stainable links with employers.

Research Needs Our strategic vision for research and intelligence is: “ to create actionable insight supporting improved outcomes for West Midlands residents, by informing West Midlands Combined Authority decision making ” The development of the West Midlands Combined Authority provides an opportunity to increase the impact of research and intelligence in improving outcomes for WM residents, particularly by: • Focussing research and intelligence on delivering the Strategic Economic Plan (SEP) • Taking a region-wide overview and working efficiently across teams, whilst also understanding local contexts • Ensuring our research is reliable and robust by developing common principles, standards, methodologies and training. • Building a holistic view of citizens by improving information sharing and analysis across West Midlands Combined Authority partners. The priorities for research and intelligence in West Midlands Combined Authority over the next three years are: • Delivering the research agenda for the SEP • Leveraging existing knowledge • Learning “what works and why?”: the West Midlands will be a hotbed of innovation in economic growth and public service reform , so we need to learn and adapt quickly • Understanding local people, particularly those with multiple needs: so that we can learn how to transform social and economic outcomes for this group.

Research Needs – next steps Offender Pathways and Services and Interventions Perceptions Profile • Offence types/behaviours. • Current levels of service provision • Understand the experiences of • Offence types for each target cohort and outcomes. women and young offenders, • Pathways of young people and • Location of West Midlands's young what are their priorities/ women into the criminal justice offenders/ women in the SE. perceptions? • The incentives of different agencies • system. Understand the experiences of • How Adverse Childhood Experiences across the CJS. victims, what are their priorities/ • How effectively does youth justice (ACEs) impact on further offending. perceptions? • How trauma, abuse and loss impacts • mesh with wider children's services. What do the general public most • Early Help and the Troubled on the WM region. want to see? • What cost-effective strategies are Families Programme contributions. • Sentencing trends for each group. available? • What are the commonalities of the • The resources currently available. • The evidence base for different third of young offenders who go on to re-offend? potential interventions and services. • What works in engaging?

Services and Interventions • Overlaps with preventative Children's Social Care services, for example Early Help modelling • Decriminalisation of children where appropriate, consistent delivery of Out Of Court Disposals with bespoke preventative intervention for children, parents and siblings Early intervention and • Remand / custody ‘at risk’ conferencing to be stepped up and alternative developed prevention • Explore delivery through multi- agency family ‘hub’ models being brokered across West Midlands authorities • Reduced use custody • Date of birth or neuro-maturation? • Liaison and diversion opportunities Criminal justice, Police, • Opportunities to look again at CPS / police prosecution policies for children / young adults • Develop alternatives to prosecution courts and prisons • Develop stronger health / therapeutically informed interventions • Problem solving courts • Reimagined role for secure estate • Improve resettlement from custody to community • Opportunity to explore alternatives to current secure estate provision to be more ‘local’ to West Midlands • Resettlement Overlaps with children leaving care and provision for them?