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Social Prescribing Programme

[Cheshire YJS (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: focusing on social prescirbing for young people at the point of arrest.

Keywords: young people, mental health, wellbeing

Sandwell & Dudley Effective Practice Delivery Team

[West Midlands Probation (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: the Effective Practice Delivery Team comprises 5 staff members of various grades who between them ensure they keep up-to-date on the latest developments and their implications for practice, and then provide guidance, training and support to colleagues as required.

Keywords: effective practice, staff training

Probation Outreach

[North East Probation (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: because it more than an hour from their main offices, Durham and Darlington PDU now run a range of services and programmes on an outreach basis in Peterlee, significantly improving engagement and complliance among people on probation from the area.

Keywords: engagement

Northumbria Stalking Intervention Programme

[North East Probation (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: the Northumbria Stalking Intervention Programme involves a core team of a Senior Probation Officer, Detective Sargeant and Higher Assistant Psychologist, supported by a specialist consultant psychiatrist, working with probation and partner agency staff to increase awareness and understanding, improve approaches to assessment and intervention, and support staff.

Keywords: stalking

Involving Children & Families in Police Training

[Islington YJS (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: a bi-monthly training session for student officers with Islington & Camden Police, involving children and their parents/carers, exploring their experiences of policing, in particular stop and search.

Keywords: young people, lived experience, community relations

Lancashire Release Booklet

[North West Probation (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: the Lancashire Release Booklet is a booklet – published in four languages – distributed to prisons releasing people back into the area, and includes details of all the available services in the area, for prisoners to use in planning for, and after, their release.

Keywords: health, substance misuse, resettlement

Practitioner Forums

[PBNI (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: PBNI’s practitioner forums bring together a range of professionals, every two months, to review those individuals engaged in domestic violence programmes.

Keywords: effective practice, professional supervision, domestic violence

Rehabilitation and Social Inclusion Hubs

[North East Probation & Ingeus (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: North East Probation, in partnership with Ingeus, have set up a number of “hub” facilities, primarily for women on probation, which bring together a wide range of services to help meet the women’s needs.

Keywords: female offenders, social inclusion, engagement

Fit for Work programme

[Ingeus (2023)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: Ingeus’ Fit for Work programme is an 8-week course, with participants spending 1 day p.w. in small teams in the Peak District national park, aimed at improving engagement and helpng prepare people for work.

Keywords: training, employment

Atlas Project

[Greater Manchester Probation (2023)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: The Atlas Project is a course developed by Greater Manchester Probation and Fire & Rescue Services (GMFRS), for adults convicted of fire-setting.

Keywords: arson, resilience