COMMUNITY JUSTICE In Falkirk
Falkirk Community Justice Partnership NHS Forth Valley Third Sector Falkirk Interface Council Scottish Police Prison Scotland Service Falkirk Community Justice Partnership Scottish Fire Crown Office & Procurator & Rescue Fiscal Service Service Skills Scottish Courts and Tribunals Development Service Scotland Health and Social Care Partnership
Community Justice Vision Improved Strategic community planning and understanding partnership and working participation Effective use of evidence Equal access to services based interventions
Reduce Re-offending by Addressing Need
Baseline Assessment – Part 1 What does Falkirk look like? • Age – general population getting older, average age of men in criminal justice system 35, women 37, physiological age of many is older. • Health – every health problem over-represented in the prison population. Alcohol features in high % of crimes – ¾ young people in Polmont drunk at time of offence. • Housing – those presenting as homeless are more vulnerable and have complex needs. Supported living requirements. • Crime – low crime rate in Falkirk, increase in domestic abuse, violent and sexual crimes. • Victims and witnesses – supported by VSS, victim care cards, Caledonian women and children’s service. Support resources for perpetrator and victim not equal.
Baseline Assessment – Part 2 How close are we in Falkirk to meeting community justice outcomes? • Improved Community Understanding and Participation . Existing engagement mechanisms and good practice, relationship with elected members, unpaid work (e.g. Dollar Park), daily TAC meetings, 24 third sector organisations delivering community justice services. • Strategic Planning and Partnership Working . Public Protection Lead Officers Group, Social Inclusion Project jointly funded, co- location criminal justice services, MAPPA. • Equal Access to Services . Throughcare, Public Social Partnerships, mentoring, dedicated housing officer in prisons, women’s hub, arrest referral, employability and key skills training. • Effective use of evidence based interventions . Diversion, bail supervision, structured deferred sentences, Community Payback Orders, robust risk and needs assessment.
Information sharing, learning and development Outputs Outcomes - Impact Inputs Activities Participation Short Medium Long (within 1 year) (within 3 years) (over 3 years) What we invest What we do Who we reach Partnership data requirements Effective information sharing between Integrated crime recording systems. Partner data. Document and agree Partnership data Police Scotland (arrest & charge documented for each stage of the partners about Falkirk crimes. requirements for each stage of the stage). criminal justice system and data flow Integrated risk and needs assessment Staff from Community Justice criminal justice journey. established. Detailed demographics of community tool. partner organisations. Procurator Fiscal Service (charge needs. Design and deliver information pack / stage). Fiscals who mark Falkirk cases fully Integrated outcomes measurement Community Justice pathway leads. training on available Falkirk diversion aware of diversion options available. Partners are able to access tool. measures, inc. map of assessment Scottish Court Service (court stage). information about other work partners Community Justice Scotland staff. process. We understand the organisational and are engaged in with their mutual People only have to tell their story Scottish Prison Service and CJSW technical barriers that stop us sharing clients. once in their journey through the People with convictions and their Document partner information systems (sentence and serving sentence information. criminal justice system. families. and where systems are (or could) be stage). The number of times someone has to shared. Falkirk Community Justice Partnership tell their story is minimised. Relevant staff are co-located and / or Victims of crime and their families. Third sector (post statutory order involved in the development of have access to the right IT recording Community Justice Scotland’s strategy Find out what tools are used by stage). Public protection staff have access to systems. People who live in the community. partners to assess risks and needs. for innovation, learning and a shared training programme. Procurator Fiscal Service. development. Strong links with Community Justice Existing systems and processes Find out what tools and methods The Community Justice Partnership is Scotland learning and development that capture needs, impact and partners use to capture outcomes, Criminal Justice Social Work. We understand what tools are used trauma informed. hub. change. impact and change for an individual. across partner organisations to assess Community Justice front line risk, need, impact and change. We understand the relationship Impact and change is captured for Existing trauma training modules. Identify implications and learning practitioners. between trauma and offending and individuals post statutory order. relevant to our service delivery. Processes established to gather the adapt our needs assessment Risk and needs assessment tools. Falkirk Public Protection Lead Officers information we need to refresh the appropriately. Input and outcome information is available regarding individuals’ Document the demographics of our group. Community Justice Baseline Outcomes capture tools. communities and their needs. Assessment. Clear evidence of implementation of involvement in community justice Falkirk community groups. Community Justice Scotland’s strategy (particularly pre-statutory services and CPP locality plans. Develop the evidence base to help Improved strategic planning and for innovation, learning and early intervention). improve understanding of community partnership working. development. Feedback from client engagement justice issues in Falkirk. (such as exit questionnaires). We understand what tools are Community Justice activity embedded Build relationship with Community available across partners to assess into CPP locality plans. Justice Scotland to discuss training / protective factors. development / analytics / best practice. Refreshed Community Justice Shared understanding of the impact of Baseline Assessment. offending on perpetrators and victims.
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