What are prison offender managers’ experiences of delivering New Me MOT?
| Date | 22 July 2024 |
| Pages | 38-51 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/JFP-12-2023-0071 |
| Published date | 22 July 2024 |
| Subject Matter | Health & social care,Criminology & forensic psychology,Forensic practice,Sociology,Sociology of crime & law,Law enforcement/correctional,Public policy & environmental management,Policing,Criminal justice |
| Author | Catia Pagano,Louise Fusco |
What are prison offender managers’
experiences of delivering New Me MOT?
Catia Pagano and Louise Fusco
Abstract
Purpose –The New Me MOT toolkit is partof the His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS)
accredited offending behaviour programmes, consisting of a series of short exercises that enable
offender managersto support graduates of the programmes to generalise theirlearning. This study was
commissionedby HMPPS with the aim to evaluate the delivery of the toolkit in custody, through exploring
probationprison offender managers’ (POMs’) deliveryexperiences.
Design/methodology/approach –Convenience sampling was used to recruit participants from male
prisons in England and Wales via semi-structured interviews (n¼8), and data was analysed through
thematicanalysis.
Findings –Five overarching themes with related subthemes were identified: New Me MOT is useful,
flexibletoolkit, motivation of the prisoner, limitedresources and lack of structured guidance.
Research limitations/implications –Future research should consider investigating POMs’
experiences from other prison establishments, to explore any possible additional findings about what
impactsNew Me MOT delivery in custody.
Practical implications –Suggestions were made to improve the future delivery of the toolkit across
HMPPS.This is fundamental to support the behaviouralchange process.
Originality/value –No previous research on New MeM OTexists. This study findings showed that, based on
the experiences of eight POMs interviewed, there are factors which aid and obstruct the toolkit delivery. This
suggests that POMs might miss opportunities to prioritise generalisationof work for those most in need, target
their criminogenic needs and tailor thetoolkit content according to participants’ personal circumstances.
Keywords New Me MOT, Toolkit, POMs, Experiences, Delivery, Thematic analysis
Paper type Research paper
Introduction
Following the Offender Management (OM) Review in 2015, the Offender Management in
Custody (OMiC) model was implemented in 2018 to co-ordinate an individual’s journey
through custody and back into the community (HMPPS, 2021). Under the OMiC model, the
responsibility for offender management has moved from the community team into custody
for longer term sentenced individuals. For this reason, the model has introduced a
dedicated role of Prison Offender manager (POM), responsible for risk managing
individuals during the main part of their sentence in custody up to the point of release.
During the pre-release or first parole phase, the offender management responsibility is
handed over to the Community Offender manager (COM). This change to the provision of
offender management originated from the need to provide a service which is tailored to the
needs and risk of each case, which can be offered through one-to-one supervision with
POMs in custody (HMPPS, 2021). In public sector prisons, POMs are operational or non-
operational prison members of staff (often also referred to as ‘prison POMs’), or
qualified probation officers (also referred to as ‘probation POMs’). All high-risk cases are
held by probation POMs, however both prison and probation POMs are responsible for
delivering probation supervision sessions with the individuals they manage, the intensity of
Catia Pagano is based at
the Department of
Psychology, His Majesty’s
Prison and Probation
Service, Manchester, UK.
Louise Fusco is based at
the Department of
Psychology, HMPPS,
Berkhamsted, UK.
Received 6 December 2023
Revised 12 April 2024
26 April 2024
Accepted 25 June 2024
The author would like to thank
her supervisor, Louise Fusco.
Her patience, advice and
unsurpassed knowledge of the
topic area have been
invaluable, for all of which the
author is extremely grateful.
The author would also like to
thank everyone who
participated in the data
collection, and HMPPS for their
contribution through the
recruitment process for this
research. Without them this
work would have not been
possible.
PAGE 38 jTHE JOURNAL OF FORENSIC PRACTICE jVOL. 27 NO. 1 2025,pp. 38-51, ©EmeraldPublishing Limited, ISSN 2050-8794 DOI 10.1108/JFP-12-2023-0071
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