Judicial Brochure: Commissioned Rehabilitative Services
An overview of commissioned rehabilitative services for members of the judiciary.
Applies to England and Wales
Overview
Commissioned Rehabilitative Services (CRS) should be used where an identified criminogenic need cannot be met through an Accredited programme requirement, Structured Intervention or Community Sentence Treatment Requirement. These interventions and services complement primary interventions where they do not meet specific needs which the CRS address, or when needs remain outstanding following engagement in other interventions.
CRS are for individuals sentenced to a Community or Suspended Sentence Order with a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement, or on Licence / Post-Sentence supervision. They may be used to support motivation and engagement by attending to need areas that will enable / support completion of other interventions.
Probation court Practitioners will have access to a directory of services for CRS interventions providing real time details of eligibility, suitability and availability, to inform proposal of a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement.
The probation practitioner forms an assessment of the “complexity levels” required to meet the needs of the individual. These describe the intensity of intervention to be delivered, aligned to the person’s needs.
Men’s Commissioned Rehabilitative Services
CRS are available to address the following needs:
Accommodation Services
Outcomes:
- Obtain or maintain suitable accommodation
- Overcome barriers to maintaining or obtaining suitable accommodation
- Prevented from homelessness
Personal Wellbeing Services
These services are delivered under three sub-types: Emotional Wellbeing, Lifestyle and Associates, Family and Significant others:
Emotional Wellbeing
Outcomes:
- Develop coping skills and strategies to regulate mood and demonstrate perspective-taking and self- care by avoiding risky situations.
- Improved levels of self-efficacy, resilience and confidence.
- Ability to access and engage with mental health services and/ or comply with any medication/treatment/therapy programmes.
- Ability to recognise and manage triggers to worsening wellbeing.
- Ability to build and maintain appropriate social interactions.
Lifestyle & Associates
Outcomes:
- Improve pro-social self-identity and ability to access community-based support networks and/or engage in their community and able to make a positive contribution.
- Sustain engagement in pro-social leisure interests and purposeful activities.
- Reduce engagement with pro-criminal associates and activities and on negative peer relationships or networks, such as organised crime.
Family & Significant Others
Outcomes:
- Develop or maintain positive family relationships and avoid harmful relationships.
- Demonstrate positive, confident and responsible parenting behaviours.
- Improve ability to develop positive intimate relationships.
- Demonstrate positive coping strategies in the event of temporary or irretrievable breakdown of familial or other relationships.
- Comply with voluntary/ mandatory family or relationship-focussed programmes.
Finance, Benefit and Debt Service
Service is available in both community and custody across the following Probation areas: Yorkshire and The Humber, North West, North East, South West (only Avon & Somerset, Dorset and Devon & Cornwall)
Service is available in only the community in the following Probation areas: East Midlands, London, Wales, West Midlands, South Central (only Thames Valley and Hampshire)
Outcomes:
- Have access to appropriate financial products, advice/or services
- Pathways are established to maintain and sustain an income, safely manage money and reduce debt.
- Financial management skills are developed and/or enhanced including online banking.
- Successfully navigate the benefits system.
- Gain quick access to universal credit.
Dependency and Recovery Services
Outcomes:
- Achieve abstinence or controlled/ non-dependent or non-problematic substance misuse.
- Improve physical health and mental resilience.
- Enhance skills to manage risky situations which may pose a trigger or relapse.
- Enhance belief in ability to manage/ desist from addiction(s).
- Increase understanding of addictive behaviours and triggers and options to reduce.
- Establish Dependency Pathways to manage a range of addictive behaviours, including supporting access into other treatment providers and detox programmes.
Women’s Commissioned Rehabilitative Services
Having a single Women’s Specific Service is intended to ensure that the interventions are responsive to the specific needs and characteristics of women.
These services are designed to:
- Secure early post-release engagement with community-based services.
- Develop and sustain social networks to reduce initial social isolation.
- Develop resilience to cope with challenges and barriers on return to the community.
CRS are available to address the following needs:
Accommodation: Women’s Service
Outcomes:
- Women obtain or maintain suitable accommodation
- Women overcome barriers to maintaining or obtaining suitable accommodation
- Women prevented from becoming homeless
Education, Training & Employment: Women’s Service
Outcomes:
- Women obtain or maintain suitable training, education and employment.
- Women overcome barriers to obtaining/maintaining suitable training, education and employment.
- Women demonstrate improvement in the skills and attitudes which enable self-development and increase employability.
Dependency & Recovery: Women’s Service
Outcomes:
- Women achieve abstinence or controlled/ non-dependent or non-problematic substance misuse.
- Women increase their understanding of addictive behaviours and triggers and option to reduce dependency.
- Women improve their physical health and mental resilience.
- Women enhance their skills to manage risky situations which may pose a trigger or relapse.
- Women improve their physical health and mental resilience.
- Women establish Dependency Pathways to manage a range of addictive behaviours, including supporting access into other treatment providers and detox programmes.
Finance, Benefit & Debt: Women’s Service
Outcomes:
- Women’s financial management skills are developed and/or enhanced.
- Women can successfully navigate the benefits system, including online banking skills.
- Pathways are established to help women maintain and sustain an income, safely manage money and reduce debt.
- Women access to appropriate financial products, advice and/or services.
- Women gain quick access to universal credit.
Personal Wellbeing: Women’s Service
These services are delivered under three sub-types: Emotional Wellbeing, Lifestyle and Associates, Family and Significant others:
Emotional Well-Being – Women’s Service
Outcomes:
- Learn coping skills and strategies to regulate mood and demonstrate perspective-taking and self- care by avoiding risky situations.
- Improved levels of self-efficacy, resilience, and confidence.
- Ability to access and engage with mental health services and/ or comply with any medication/treatment/therapy programmes.
- Ability to recognise and manage triggers to worsening wellbeing.
- Ability to build and maintain appropriate social interactions.
Family & Significant Others – Women’s Service
Outcomes:
- Develop or maintain positive family relationships and avoids harmful relationships.
- Demonstrate positive, confident and responsible parenting behaviours.
- Improve the ability to develop positive intimate relationships.
- Demonstrate positive coping strategies in the event of temporary or irretrievable breakdown of familial or other relationships.
- Comply with voluntary/ mandatory family or relationship-focussed programmes.
Lifestyle & Associates – Women Service
Outcomes:
- Improve pro-social self-identity and ability to access community-based support networks and/or engage in their community and able to make a positive contribution.
- Sustain engagement in pro-social leisure interests and purposeful activities.
- Reduce engagement with pro-criminal associates and activities and on negative peer relationships or networks, such as organised crime.