Community Justice Files 31

AuthorDr Nick Flynn
Pages215-222
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COMMUNITY JUSTICE FILES 31
Edited by Nick Flynn, De Montfort University
The following provides details of key government papers on ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’,
government papers on rehabilitation more generally which sit alongside the ‘Transforming
Rehabilitation’ reforms, and position statements and responses to ‘Transforming
Rehabilitation’ by other bodies including non-governmental organisations.
Proposals for ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ were published initially by th e Ministry of
Justice in Transforming Rehabilitation: A Revolution in the Way we Manage Offenders,
2013. This set out how the Government intends to fund rehabilitation in the community
through a new system of ‘payments by results’, and to reconfigure the way probation
services are commissioned a nd delivered in the futur e. The document asked for view s on
the proposals, including on the detailed specifications and operational design of the new
system. The consultation was completed on 22 February 2013 and the Government
responses to the consultation, Transforming Rehabilitation: A Strategy for Reform and
Transforming Rehabilitation: Summary of responses were published three months later
in May 2013. Transforming Rehabilitation: A revolution in the way we manage offenders,
2013; Transforming Rehabilitation: A Strategy for Reform; and Transforming
Rehabilitation: Summary of responses can all be found at:
https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communicat ions/transforming-rehabilitation
The call for organisations to bid for rehabilitation services, as set out in the Government’s
Transforming Rehabilitation Strategy, was made in S eptember, 2013. Potential providers
were asked either to bid directly with the Ministry of Justice to d eliver services (Tier 1
providers) or to sub-contract with Tier I providers including through grant funding
arrangements (Tier II and Tier III providers). The deadline to register bids was 14
November, 2013, and it is intended that all contracts will be awarded and mobilised by
2015. To facilitate finding the 21 new Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) who
will deliver rehabilitation services currently undertaken by the Probation Service, the
Government has published a series of documents on the competitive tendering process.
These include the following :
A formal notification of the launch of the competition: A Contract Notice;
A Principles of Competition Document;
Details of The Tier II and Tier III Registration Process;
A Target Operating Model Rehabilitation Programme;
British Journal of Community Justice
©2013 Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
ISSN 1475-0279
Vol. 11(2-3): 215-222

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