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Breaking the Cycle: Nacro’s response | Nacro would welcome a debate which results in constructive ways of embedding communitypayback within local crime and reoffending reduction strategies in the advent of the electionof police and crime commissioners. This should coincide with a more explicit link betweenthe type of offence committed and the type of payback undertaken by the offender, leading togreater public understanding and involvement. Tangible opportunities should be found in theforthcoming community payback tenders to make links between unpaid work and future paidwork by enrolling employers and social enterprises in the delivery of community payback.Q7How should we seek to deliver community payback in partnership withorganisations outside government?Nacro supports the decision to outsource community payback delivery to the private andvoluntary sector and sees this as yet another area for collaboration between the public, privateand voluntary sectors. But this should not simply be a question of who delivers the service.While involving the private and voluntary sector makes sense from the point of view of priceand quality, we should not miss the opportunity that this presents to reconfigure communitypayback by:• involving employers so that unpaid work placements can lead to future paid work opportunities• developing a wider portfolio of placements hosted by community and faith groups,particularly in harder-to-reach sections of the community• testing inter-generational and restorative approaches• developing new promotional campaigns which push the wider benefits of communitypayback to victims and neighbourhoods more generally.
Breaking the Cycle: Nacro’s response | Section 2Offender managementQ8What can central government do to help remove local barriers toimplementing an integrated approach to managing offenders?Nacro believes that the key to an integrated approach to managing offenders lies in developinglocality-based commissioning. This draws on the Total Place approach initiated by the lastadministration in terms of jointly conceived strategic aims for reducing crime, the fear ofcrime and reoffending. Offenders often have multiple needs and present multiple risks. Itfollows, therefore, that services must be cross-cutting. Equally, individual communities inwhich offenders and victims live have distinct needs in relation to crime, the fear of crime andreducing reoffending, and should be empowered to be properly involved in the design andimplementation of community safety strategies and activities in developing their own solutionsto addressing these problems.How services are commissioned is critical to reducing barriers to integrated provision. There isan urgent need to bring multiple funding streams together and for local areas to adopt intelligentcommissioning methods. Central government should provide the necessary leadership andjoined-up thinking between departments and between national and local commissioningframeworks. It is well documented that many of the solutions to addressing crime lie outsidethe criminal justice system. Police, courts, probation and prisons can tackle some of the risksand needs, but local services that address housing, finance, health, children and families, andeducation, training and employment are vital components in reducing reoffending. Currently,these services are all commissioned separately. Unless and until joined-up outcomes arecommissioned, we will continue to face barriers to adopting truly integrated approaches.Payment by results and outcomes-based commissioning should be used to encourage serviceproviders to focus on delivering services that work and that can be demonstrated to bringabout positive change. We know that voluntary and community sector organisations canprovide services which maximise engagement and active participation. They are shown to beeffective in working with marginalised groups such as women and people from black, Asian andother minority groups and with specific faith or cultural needs. The government must ensurethat bureaucratic tendering processes do not stand in the way of local providers and that theinnovation, expertise and reach they offer is not lost.There is much to be learned from existing local integrated offender management (IOM) andmulti-agency public protection panel arrangements (MAPPPA) schemes. We must test thesearrangements against reductions in reoffending and ensure that lessons learned are taken forwardin any new delivery arrangements. But if we are to achieve truly transformative approaches atlocal level we need to benefit from all potential providers being able to participate. This
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