Home Office Good Practice Seminars
Prolific & other priority offenders seminar
Keynote presentations - 1 December 2004
Tackling Prolific Offenders: reducing crime
Chetan Patel, Prolific and Priority (PPO) Offender Delivery Team, Home Office
Chetan Patel detailed the reasons why prolific offenders should be targeted and explained the strategy with its three interlocking parts: prevent and deter, catch and convict, rehabilitate and resettle. The presentation included the key governing principles governing effective partnerships and the stages to embed the strategy in planning processes for the coming year.
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National Reducing Re-offending Action Plan: the context for prolific and priority offenders
Patricia Best, Rehabilitation of Offenders Policy Team, Home Office
Patricia Best talked about the context for the national strategy and its component parts. She focused on the role of the National Offender Management Service, regional and local delivery and prolific and priority offenders.
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Challenges in Delivering PPOs: a practitioner's perspective
Denise Casbolt, Director, Barnsley CDRP and National Community Safety Network (NCSN)
Denise Casbolt explained how Barnsley is tackling the delivery of the PPO strategy and identified the local challenges they face, including joining up related programmes. She also looked at the national perspective considering the barriers and challenges identified in the NCSN barriers to performance study. She ended with feedback from NCSN members.
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Partnership Working: Engaging Health
Jane Davis, Joint Commissioning Manager, Cambridgeshire PCT
Jane Davis detailed the health gains from crime reduction, looking at the effects of drug and alcohol addiction on the health service and the wider community. With many agencies having targets connected with drug misuse, there is a need to work together as doing nothing will affect everyone's targets. She detailed her own experience of what partnership working needs to be based on and showed that treatment is having an impact on crime in the area.
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