Partnerships

The aims of the National Probation Service, to protect the public and to reduce re-offending, clearly relate to the aims of a number of other organisations in Cumbria who provide services to the public.  In order for us to deliver the most efficient and effective service to local communities, it makes sense for us to work with a range of other groups and agencies, in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors.  We fund a number of partnerships with other organisations which are designed to support the Regional Reducing Reoffending Action Plan.

The Regional Plan has eight action pathways:

• Accommodation
• Physical and Mental Health
• Finance, Benefit and Debt
• Attitudes, Thinking and Behaviour
• Employment, Learning and Skills
• Drugs and Alcohol
• Children, Families and Social Support
• Victims and Reparation

Currently the Probation Area is supporting voluntary organisations to provide or develop services in relation to the Accommodation, Employment, Learning and Skills, Finance, Drugs and Alcohol pathways.

We work very closely with our local police and Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships so that together we may monitor and manage dangerous offenders in the community, as well as identify and target prolific offenders.

We contribute to the Youth Offending Service, Drug and Alcohol Action Team, as well as having partnerships with HMP Haverigg (see Role in Prisons).

Private and voluntary agencies work with offenders under our supervision to reduce the chances of re-offending through making interventions around a variety of interventions.  Examples of partnership working include:

• CASS (Cumbria Action for Social Support)               
• Shelter                                                                     

Providing accommodation services

• Addaction                                                                   
• CADAS (Cumbria Drug and Alcohol Service)           

Providing services and support for substance misusers

• A4E (Action for Employment)                                    
• Rathbone Training                                                     

Skills for life training.

• Citizen’s Advice Bureaux                                           

         Debt Counselling

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