1. Can social enterprise reduce reoffending? Rachel O’Brien May 2017

2. Assets and challenges • Creative • Problem solving • Nimble • Local/hyper local • Client relationships • Impact • Co-design • Ambition • Context • Commissioning • Competition • Definition • Sustainability • Evidence • Collaboration • Aspiration What could the NFN do to promote the assets and overcome challenges?

3. The New Futures Network (NFN)

4. NFN Relationship to reform Prisons’ purpose? • Protect the public, • Reform and rehabilitate • Prepare prisoners for life outside • Maintain an environment that is safe and secure. • Gove, autonomy and the New Schools Network. • Truss, empowerment and primary legislation. • Promote, communicate and drive reform. • RSA as designer and honest broker. • ‘Reform’ prisons 6 -12 • NOMs – HMPPS • Structure/group directors • Commissioning freedoms • Prison and Courts Bill • Employment strategy • Leadership and workforce • Probation? • Centre of Excellence

5. The ‘vision’ • The New Futures Network will drive partnerships and innovationto boost people’s chances of leaving crime behind. • It will increase capacity, through brokering sustainable strategic partnerships and effective cross-sector relationships that support rehabilitation, employment and skills. • It will champion good practicethat supports rehabilitation through informing, engaging and persuading. • It will provide a channel of communicationbetween frontline services and central government.

6. Work streams

7. The structure

8. PPCs/CJBs bring together Police, CRCs, NPS, CPS, courts, health, housing and NGOs, Las, PCCs/CJBs NFN post NFN Local/LEGs employers; CoC, IoD local members; LEPs; social enterprises and NGOs, LA employment and enterprise leads; FE, HE, HMP learning providers, NCS, DWP. • Embracing their ‘and Crime’ remit • Developing single vision, data sharing and integrated priorities. • Identifying employment as a priority in reducing reoffending. • Want effective ways to help people to become work ready and secure jobs. • Can champion the role of employers in reducing crime and the contribution prisoners and those on licence can make to the local economy. • Lack the levers or bandwidth to create employment networks or drive practice delivery • Understand the commercial needs of employers • Building on local employment and skills strategies linked to skills gaps and commissioning. • Develop, deliver and scale the Prison Apprenticeship Pathway, and ensure Centres of Excellence are sustainable and impactful. • Develop local strategic partnerships and social enterprises that increase the number of employers involved in training and employment inside prisons and committed to opening up jobs to those leaving custody and on licence. • Co-design ‘triage’ mechanisms that develop criteria and a filtering process to speed up delivery of effective employment partnerships.

9. Outcomes and indicators • What is the common thing we want to achieve? • Self-confidence • Self-efficacy • Supportive networks • Belonging • Purpose • Trusted relationships • Employability • Aspiration • Motivation….. • Wellbeing, which can be measured! • http://neweconomics.org/2008/10/five-ways-to-wellbeing-the-evidence/ • www.nationalaccountsofwellbeing.org/ • www.li.com/programmes/the-commission-on-wellbeing-and-policy • https://academic.oup.com/cje/article/doi/10.1093/cje/bew044/2327835/Towards-an-economics-of-well-being

10. Indicators of well being (NEF)

11. Responding to the challenges • Context • Commissioning • Competition • Definition • Sustainability • Evidence • Collaboration • Aspiration • Whole person/system • Challenging orthodoxy • USPs/partnerships • Outcome based • Strategic relationships • Design in impact • Collaboration • The Bumble Bee!

12. RSA https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/reports/a-matter-of-conviction-a-blueprint-for-community-based-prisons NFNhttps://www.thersa.org/action-and-research/rsa-projects/public-services-and-communities-folder/new-futures-networks For more information email racobrien@googlemail.com Jack.robson@rsa.org.uk