Offender Intervention

The Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales and His Majesty's Prison and Probation service Wales are seeking to commission a Justice Integrated Partnership service provision for Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, Cwm Taf Morgannwg and the public sector prisons of His Majesty's Prison, Cardiff and HMP Usk/Prescoed.

The Commissioner for South Wales is seeking Contractor(s) to provide a service, which will assess, engage and divert individual offenders out of crime and into appropriate levels of interventions, support the reduction of drug and alcohol related misuse and reduce levels of offending in accordance with;

• Commissioner's Police, Crime and Justice Plan,

• HMPPS priorities,

• the Wales Reducing Re-offending Strategy, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons,

• His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary reports,

• Integrated Offender Management Cymru Strategic Framework and Delivery Manual.

The Contractor(s) shall ensure the service will identify and consider the barriers that individuals, or groups, may face in engaging with such services and mitigate these to ensure equity of service.

Whilst the Commissioner is the sole contractual party, the Contractor is required to develop and sustain close working relationships with a number of other organisations in order to provide an effective service throughout the contract period. Such organisations shall include the:

• Area Planning Boards for substance misuse in Cardiff and Vale and Cwm Morgannwg

• HMPPS, His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals service HMCTS

• South Wales Police

• the Local Health Boards, Local Authorities

• Housing providers

• other substance use services in Wales and

• others named or referred to throughout this Specification.

The Contractor shall provide the service in accordance with the:

• Welsh Government Substance Misuse Treatment Frameworks

• the objectives of South Wales Criminal Justice Board

• HMPPS in Wales Reducing Reoffending Plan.

The Contractor shall provide assessment, diversion and engagement service to adults, whose offending behaviour or criminogenic need is linked to alcohol and/or drug use, within Police custody suites, courts, community and the prison estate who do, or would normally be expected to*, reside within the following unitary local authority areas of South Wales, namely:

• Bridgend

• Cardiff

• Vale of Glamorgan

• Rhondda Cynon Taf

• Merthyr Tydfil

(*NB - currently in the prison estate within the UK and returning to South Wales upon release, or those currently having no fixed /settled address but rough sleeping/staying within the area)

The Contractor shall deliver the service in two activity areas:

Criminal Justice Assessment and Engagement service, which shall include:

• Custody suites and courts

• Prison

Criminal Justice Community Treatment and Support Provisions, which shall include:

• Statutory drug rehabilitation requirement, alcohol treatment requirement and other treatment related mandatory supervision requirements

• Individuals leaving prison who have licence conditions to attend a substance use treatment service, comply with drug testing and / or are in receipt of opioid substitution treatment on release.