Transforming JusticeGreater 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