Home Office Good Practice Seminars
Prolific & other priority offenders seminar
Workshops - 2 December
Workshop 3
Intensively Targeted Offenders - YIPs
(Graham Spencer, Manager, Hammersmith & Fulham YIP)
Graham gave an outline of the structure and functions of the Hammersmith & Fulham YIP.
The workshop was run twice and, following the presentation, delegates were split into smaller groups discussing the following issues:
Who is/would be expected to deliver Prevent & Deter in your area?
YOT
Police
Local Authority
Housing
Connexions
Youth Services
Local schemes
Multi-agency (arguable which agency should lead on behalf of CDRP)
YIP
YISP
ASBO team
Fire Service
Voluntary sector e.g. Groundwork
Community
Educational Services
Safer Schools Partnership
Behavioural Educational Support Team – BEST
Behaviour Improvement Programme – BIP
Health Services
Social Services
Probation
Criminal Justice System
Secure Estate
Drugs/alcohol services
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services – CAMHS
Family Mediation
Leisure
Children’s Trusts
What are the barriers to delivering Prevent & Deter?
Children’s Trusts
Competing agendas
Commitments
??Resource neutral??
Partners tend to exclude not include
Traditional working practices (dinosaur mentality)
Fear of working with criminal justice agencies
Too many pilots, not enough mainstreaming/sustainability
Viewing other providers as being competitors
Staff changes & short-term ideas/initiatives
Preciousness over information
Short-term funding & complicated applications
Money
Common approach delivery/commitment
Assessments – delays
Shared definitions
To be linked to wider agenda – children’s trusts
Shared priorities – lack of strategic vision
Not duplicating work
Download: Intensively targeted offenders – YIPs (PowerPoint presentation) 35 Kb
Related links
Prolific and other Priority Offenders Strategy webpage
Last update: 16 May 2005