Earlier this year Clinks Strategic Development Manager, Lesley Frazer, asked ‘what does good rehabilitation look like?’ Following your feedback we have now published a discussion paper on the subject, full of questions and thoughts for your consideration.
Lesley introduces the discussion paper in her latest blog, available now on the Clinks website:
“We need a vision of what ‘good’ rehabilitation looks like, to underpin not only innovative, evidenced-based service development but also quality-based commissioning and the procurement of packages of rehabilitation services most likely to support desistance.
The focus of the Transforming Rehabilitation payment mechanism on short-term primary desistance, and the shift to nationally commissioned resettlement and punishment/rehabilitation services, risks disconnecting rehabilitation services and service users themselves from the communities and wider local systems that have the potential to support secondary desistance and bring about long term, positive change.”
The paper aims to stimulate fresh debate as implementation of the reforms moves forward. It calls for a new discourse and a new vision to be developed around what ‘good’ looks like in the rehabilitation of offenders, whether in prison or in the community.
Read the blog and paper, and share your expertise here.
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