Process evaluation of the Electronic Monitoring as Licence Variation Project
The report provides the findings of the process evaluation undertaken for the EM as Licence Variation project.
Applies to England and Wales
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The Electronic Monitoring (EM) as Licence Variation (LV) project began as a pilot during August 2022 in one probation region of England and Wales, which was later extended to five probation regions in total.
The intervention entails the discretionary use of EM by probation practitioners in relation to prison leavers whose behaviour is seen to be deteriorating and where the additional use of EM is determined to be a proportionate and necessary response.
The subjects must be adults who were released on licence from a standard determinate custodial sentence of any duration for any offence type. The additional use of EM for up to 12 months is enforced through a variation of the prison leaver’s licence conditions.
The process evaluation report contains qualitative conclusions about stakeholders’ perceptions about what has worked well and less well in the EM as LV project. There is also a quantitative summary of the available management information for the period up to December 2023.