Crime Reduction - Helping to Reduce Crime in Your Area

Prolific & other priority offenders seminar

1-2 December 2004
Renaissance Hotel, Manchester

Aims

• To provide good practice information on a range of initiatives which will be effective in tackling prolific offending

• To provide a forum for practitioners from around the country to share successful ideas, explore problems and barriers to success, and to learn from each other's experience.

Summary

Wednesday 1 December - Day 1

David Smith, Home Office Regional Director at the Government Office for the North West, introduced the day and the keynote presentations and debate.

• Chetan Patel, Prolific and Priority (PPO) Offender Delivery Team, Home Office, set the scene for the next 12 months.

• Patricia Best, Rehabilitation of Offenders Policy Team, Home Office, presented on Action to Reduce Re-offending by PPOs.

• Denise Casbolt, Director, Barnlsey CDRP and National Community Safety Network (NCSN) presented on Challenges in Delivering PPOs: a practitioner's perspective.

In the afternoon, Jane Davis, Joint Commissioning Manager, Cambridgeshire PCT presented on Partnership Working: Engaging Health.

Delegates attended two of the following four workshops:

Workshop 1
Rehabilitating and resettling offenders in East Manchester
Lance Thomas, Greater Manchester Police, Project Manager EMBRACE

Workshop 2
Information Sharing
Kevin Crowley, National Treatment Agency

Workshop 3
Joint Management of Offenders: Avon & Somerset experience
Kay Wozniak and Garry Holden , Avon & Somerset

Workshop 4
The NOMs Case Management Approach
Peter Pettit and John Parkin, ACPO/GONW, Prison Rep

Thursday 2 December - Day 2

Delegates selected two from the following four workshops:

Workshop 1
Intervening with young people already/at risk of offending
Geraldine Williams, Manager, & Duncan Connor, Family Worker, Diversionary Youth Support in Calderdale

Workshop 2
Working with persistent or serious young offenders
Susan Walker, Manager, Manchester West ISSP

Workshop 3
Intensively Targeted Offenders - YIPs
Graham Spencer, Manager, Hammersmith & Fulham YIP

Workshop 4
Intensively Targeted Offenders - YISPs
Ella Clarke, Manager, Greenwich YISP

Phil Park, Youth Justice Board, introduced keynote presentations on the 'prevent and deter' debate.

• Bernard Lane, Prevention of Youth Crime, Home Office, gave an overview of Youth Crime Prevention.

• Bob Ashford, Youth Justice Board, presented on the Role of YOTs in the Prevention of Offending and ASB.

Last update: Wednesday, November 01, 2006