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Explore Greater Manchester's innovative justice reinvestment model, addressing financial accountability gaps and reinvesting savings into prevention strategies. Learn about the Financial Incentive Model, Community Budgets, and key principles guiding this transformative program. Discover transition points, service delivery frameworks, and initiatives targeting youth and adult offenders. This comprehensive approach emphasizes partnership, evidence-based interventions, and community engagement to reduce reoffending rates and improve outcomes.
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Transforming Justice Greater Manchester’s approach to justice reinvestment
A local approach to payment by results • Addresses lack of local financial accountability for the justice system • Shares savings from reduced demand with local partners • Savings reinvested in prevention • Local partners free to target cohorts and resources
Financial Incentive Model • MOJ pay back 50% of savings for • 5% reduction in adult demand • 10% reduction in youth demand • MOJ pay back all savings from this threshold up to a 20% reduction • Demand monitored from 1/7/11 to 30/6/12 and 1/7/12 to 30/6/13 • Savings must be used to reduce reoffending
Community Budgets • GM one of 16 national pilot areas • Commissioning across public sector agencies at the most appropriate scale • Focus on reducing dependency and demand • Tackling poverty and life chances • Improving outcomes in early years • Reducing reoffending rates
Community Budgets • New delivery models • Robust integration • Evidenced interventions • Investment agreement that identifies and distributes savings
Principles • Ambition • Partnership working • Flexibility • Sequencing • Evidence
TJ: Case for Change • Population of 2 580 000 • During09/10: • 1.1bn spent on criminal justice • 246 416 recorded offences • Over 70 000 adult convictions • 5 456 youth convictions
Transition points • Youth to adult • Point of arrest • Point of sentence • Point of release
Service Delivery Framework • Compendium of all services and interventions • Identifies costs and benefits but more importantly where these arise • Will be a tool to commission and decommission
Point of Arrest • Exploring pre-court disposal for • Offences where alcohol is a factor • Class B & C drug possession • Adult women offenders for low level offences • Young adult males involved in ASB • Community justice panels • Youth triage
Point of Sentence • Mapping local delivery plans and sharing across boundaries • Development of a Women’s Attendance Centre
Point of Release • Developing understanding of sector engagement with prisons • Identifying innovative non-statutory approaches to accommodation and worklessness
Young People • 10 district YOS developing GM Youth Justice Offer • Youth triage with GMP • Reviewing appropriate adult provision
Involving the voluntary sector • Report on volunteering • Sector specific stakeholder event • Mapping of sector provision • Identifying existing innovative practice
Summary • Significant opportunity • Desire to engage voluntary sector and volunteering • Need to “do the right thing” not game the system • Barriers to evidence impact • Structural change has a serious impact • Decommissioning necessary to generate investment