Restructuring Of The National Offender Management Service

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 0102977259

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Restructuring of the National Offender Management Service by Great Britain: National Audit Office Pdf

The National Offender Management Service, an Executive Agency of the Ministry of Justice, faces substantial financial and operational challenges, including a vulnerability to unexpected changes in the prison population. The Service achieved value for money in 2011-12, as it hit its savings target of £230 million while restructuring its headquarters and it has broadly maintained its performance, such as in reducing reoffending. As a result of some sentencing reforms not going ahead, the Ministry of Justice lost around £130 million of savings. Given the loss of these reforms, the prison population is now unlikely to fall significantly over the next few years, which limits the plans to close older, more expensive, prisons and bring down costs. The savings target for 2012-13 of a further £246 million is challenging and an overspend of £32 million is forecast. The Service currently has a £66 million shortfall in the £122 million needed over the next two years to fund early staff departures aimed at bringing long-term reductions in its payroll bill. The Service has restructured its headquarters, reducing staff numbers by around 650 from around 2,400. Most stakeholders generally regarded the restructure positively, considering it produced a more efficient organisation with greater clarity on accountability. The Service relies on the probation profession to deliver reforms and to reduce costs, but there are some tensions in the relationship. The NAO recommends the Service continues to engage with probation trusts to address their perception it lacks understanding of probation issues.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 0215054539

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Restructuring of the National Offender Management Service by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Pdf

The National Offender Management Service directly manages 117 public prisons, manages the contracts of 14 private prisons, and is responsible for a prisoner population of around 86,000. It commissions and funds services from 35 probation trusts, which oversee approximately 165,000 offenders serving community sentences. For 2012-13, the Agency's budget is £3,401 million. The Agency achieved its savings targets of £230 million in 2011-12 and maintained its overall performance, despite an increase in the prison population. However, the Agency's savings targets of £246 million in 2012-13, £262 million in 2013-14 and £145 million in 2014-15 are challenging. The Agency believes it has scope to make the prison estate more efficient by closing older, more expensive prisons and investing in new ones. These plans, however, assume the prison population will stay at its current level. Furthermore, the Agency has not yet secured the up-front funding for the voluntary redundancies needed to bring down prison staffing costs. Unless overcrowding is addressed and staff continue to carry out offender management work it is increasingly likely that rehabilitation work needed to reduce the risk of prisoners reoffending will not be provided. The Agency has not done enough to address the risks to safety, decency and standards in prisons and in community services arising from staffing cuts implemented to meet financial targets. The Agency plans to increase the role of private firms and the third sector in probation but the probation trusts don't appear to have the infrastructure and skills they need to commission probation services from these providers effectively

Author : Robert Jones
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786839442

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The Welsh Criminal Justice System by Robert Jones Pdf

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0102980632

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Memorandum on the 2012 Civil Service Reform Plan by Great Britain: National Audit Office Pdf

The government published its Civil Service Reform Plan (the Plan) in June 2012 (www.civilservice.gov.uk/reform). It followed the publication of the 2011 Open Public Services White Paper (Cm.8145, ISBN 9780101814522) which called for a smaller, more strategic civil service that does less centrally, and commissions more from outside. The Plan has many themes in common with previous initiatives that attempted to reform the civil service, and adapt it to the changing needs of governments and public service users, but is arguably the broadest such reform programme since 1968. This Memorandum is intended primarily to inform the Committee's discussions with the leadership of the civil service about the Plan. Given that the Plan is less than a year old, it is not an evaluation of the reforms in the Plan, the progress made against them, or the implementation arrangements in place. It is designed to support the Committee to engage with the breadth of the Plan, so that they can use their influence to help ensure that its implementation improves efficiency, reinforces Parliamentary accountability and protects value for taxpayers and citizens. The Civil Service, in its present form as of 2012, employs 459,000 people across 106 departments and other bodies. The annual spend on Civil Service pay is £16 billion. The projected cost reduction for the Civil Service, between 2010 to 2015 is £80 billion and the projected reduction in the number of full-time equivalent civil servants over the same period is 110,000 representing about 23% of total staff.

Author : Adrian J. Scott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781350312326

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Forensic Psychology by Adrian J. Scott Pdf

Why do people commit crime? How effective and reliable is the investigative process? How do jurors decide whether a person is guilty or innocent? How effective is treatment in reducing the risk of reoffending? In this up-to-date edition of his highly informative textbook, Adrian Scott reveals just how much forensic psychology can tell us - not only about offenders and their crimes, but also about the different stages of the criminal justice system. Covering social, psychological, biological and cognitive theories of crime, as well as research and theory relating to the investigative process, the courtroom and the penal system, this book provides in-depth coverage of the major areas within forensic psychology. It is essential reading for curious students seeking an engaging and accessible introduction to this fascinating topic.

Author : Anthea Hucklesby,Mary Corcoran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137370679

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The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice by Anthea Hucklesby,Mary Corcoran Pdf

The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, victims and witnesses. This collection brings together leading experts to provide critical reflections and cutting edge research on the contemporary features of voluntary sector work in criminal justice. At a time when the voluntary sector's role is being transformed, this book examines the dynamic nature of the voluntary sector and its responses to current uncertainties, and some of the conflicting positions with regards to its present and future role in criminal justice work. It also examines the potential impact of economic, political and ideological trends on the role and remit of voluntary sector organisations which undertake criminal justice work.

Author : Loraine Gelsthorpe,Rod Morgan
Publisher : Willan
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134014910

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Handbook of Probation by Loraine Gelsthorpe,Rod Morgan Pdf

This Handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date source of information and analysis about all aspects of the work of the Probation Service. It takes full account of the many changes that the Probation Service has undergone over the last few years, and is currently undergoing as probation becomes part of the broader National Offender Management Service. Contributors to the book are drawn from leading academics and practitioners in the field, drawing upon the best expertise available. Running through the book is a concern with a range of key current issues such as addressing the diversity of offenders and creating effective links with other criminal justice agencies, and it includes perspectives from both probation service staff and from offenders and victims. This book is an essential text for practitioners, trainees and students of probation and those studying it as part of a wider criminology or criminal justice course.

Author : Susanna Alexius,Kristina Tamm Hallström
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782544470

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Configuring Value Conflicts in Markets by Susanna Alexius,Kristina Tamm Hallström Pdf

Economic values shape markets, as does sustainability, safety, decency, public health and democracy. Based on micro-process studies in a dozen markets, this multi-disciplinary book presents a typology of strategic responses to value plurality in markets and helps to explain how such value work influences market reform. Value plurality may be reinforced and turned into open conflicts, but also played down in configurations that neutralize, align, balance, or hierarchize values. By highlighting the role of values in markets, this book clarifies why and how markets are organized.

Author : John Deering
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317075554

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Probation Practice and the New Penology by John Deering Pdf

The criminal justice system has been in a state of flux in recent decades, accompanied by growing levels of insecurity and intolerance of crime and offenders among the general population. Along with government policy and practice, these developments are seen as contributing to an increasingly punitive system that imprisons more than ever before and seeks to punish and manage offenders in the community, rather than to attempt their rehabilitation. For these reasons, along with a loss of faith in rehabilitation, the probation service is now described by many as having become a law enforcement agency, charged by government with the assessment and management of risk, the protection of the public and the management and punishment of offenders, rather than their transformation into pro-social citizens. This book explores the extent to which practitioners within the National Probation Service for England and Wales and the National Offender Management Service ascribe to the values, attitudes and beliefs associated with these macro and mezzo level changes and how much their practice has changed accordingly. By viewing examples of 'real' practice through the lens of the modernisation of public services, managerialism and theories of organisation change, the book considers how 'real' practice is likely to emerge as something unpredictable and perhaps different from the intentions of both government/management and practitioners.

Author : Yvonne Jewkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136308314

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Handbook on Prisons by Yvonne Jewkes Pdf

Focusing on prisons, this title is a useful reference for practitioners working in prisons and other parts of the criminal justice system. It explores a range of historical and contemporary issues relating to prisons, imprisonment and prison management.

Author : National Offender Management Service (Great Britain)
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0102984549

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National Offender Management Service Annual Report and Accounts by National Offender Management Service (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Dexter Whitfield
Publisher : Spokesman Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civil service
ISBN : 0851247156

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New Labour's Attack on Public Services by Dexter Whitfield Pdf

New Labour is creating markets in public services on an unprecedented scale. Education, health and social care, children's services, housing, planning and regeneration, the criminal justice system and the welfare state are all being marketised. It has gone well beyond even Tory expectations of the 1990s.Privatisation inevitably follows marketisation, eroding democratic accountability and embedding business interests. The impact will be far reaching. Any benefits in terms of economic, social and sustainable development that are gained through regional strategies and city regions could evaporate if market forces are allowed to run rampant across the public sector.As this timely book makes clear, action by alliances of trade unions, community organisations and civil society organisations is urgently required.

Author : Birrell, Derek,Gray, Ann Marie
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447319177

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Delivering Social Welfare by Birrell, Derek,Gray, Ann Marie Pdf

As the system of social welfare governance and delivery in the United Kingdom faces continued, radical change, this important book argues that this change is so extensive that we should consider it a fundamental transformation or revolution. Assessing twenty years of changes across the whole of the United Kingdom, Derek Birrell and Ann Marie Gray show how a new public governance perspective has replaced the dominance of public management, reflecting the increasingly plural and fragmented nature of public policy implementation. Drawing on examples across a range of policy areas, this comprehensive book unravels the complex ways in which changes in social policy and governance interact in the delivery of social welfare, making it essential reading for welfare researchers, students, and policy makers.

Author : Philip Whitehead
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447327660

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Transforming Probation by Philip Whitehead Pdf

Written by an established author in the field, this book explores the politics of modernisation and transformation of probation in the criminal justice system. It is unique in drawing upon innovative social theories and moral perspectives to analyse changes in the probation service by including data from quantitative and qualitative empirical research. This highlights the challenges to, but also support of, the platform of modernisation that culminated in the transformative Rehabilitation Revolution. Providing critical tools for the reader to use in their own work and studies, it makes a timely contribution to criminal justice and probation theory and uniquely provides insights into what representatives of other organisations think about probation – from the outside looking in.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112085035282

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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf