Making sense of payment by results
The purpose of the new interactive tool is to help commissioners, investors and providers consider whether it might be appropriate to use PbR for a particular service. The tool asks key questions on both the rationale for using PbR and key elements of the contract such as defining and validating outcomes and guarding against common PbR problems such as “creaming and parking” and unintended consequences.
Rehabilitation Work: Supporting Desistance and Recovery
Fascinating new book by Doctor Hannah Graham explores how probation officers resolve conflicts between their own values & the requirements of their organisation
The future prison
New RSA project “the Future Prison” seeks to develop a blueprint for a new prison system which has rehabilitation at its heart.
The true horrors of using NPS in prison
A report by User Voice for the NHS confirms that synthetic cannabinoid Spice is the most popular drug in prison and causes serious health & security problems. Its popularity is attributed to its “bird killing” properties.
Transforming Rehabilitation faces big challenges
Achieving value for money from the new probation system will require resolving these fundamental issues, and ensuring the right incentives for all participants in the system.
The unexpected consequences of payment by results
The issue of providers “gaming” PbR contracts is a hot issue in the literature. Commentators take different views with some stating that it is only rational and efficient for providers to focus on the outcomes incentivised by PbR payments to the best of their ability while others describe similar behaviour as “gaming.”
Drug-related deaths continue to rise
The number of men whose death was officially caused by drug misuse is approximately the same now as it was 15 years ago, although the last two years have seen a sharp increase. The number of women whose death was officially caused by drug misuse has doubled over the same period.
Synthetic cannabis a major problem for prisons
Synthetic cannabis in prison such a major problem that inspectors recommend the Prisons Minister oversees a comprehensive response
Heroin users stuck in the treatment system
Less than one quarter (24%) of the 273,898 opiate clients who have been in contact with treatment services since 2005/6 had completed treatment and not returned by 31 March 2015.
What do recovery and desistance have in common?
Understanding the whole person The Revolving Doors Agency has just (26 November 2015) published the first in a series of literature reviews on severe and multiple disadvantage. Entitled: Understanding the whole person, it asks the key question: What are the common concepts for recovery and desistance across the fields of mental health, substance misuse, and criminology? Written […]
Surviving the first 24 hours in prison
In the first few days of imprisonment, prisoners are particularly vulnerable and the risk of suicide is high during this time.
Peterborough Prison PbR pilot results improving, but still below target
However, if the offender population in Peterborough is typical of local prisons, these results are promising although they do not reach the 10% target figure which would release the full PbR payment (the number of reconviction events would need to be 148 per 100 offenders rather than the current 155).
