Community Rehabilitation Companies

(asked on 10th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what penalties will be imposed on community rehabilitation companies when breaches by offenders in their cohort are (a) reported and actioned and (b) not reported.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
Second Church Estates Commissioner
This question was answered on 20th November 2014

Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) are required to monitor and support offenders’ compliance with their sentence or licence conditions and to manage public protection risks. The National Offender Management Service is responsible for taking appropriate action in relation to any breaches by offenders notified by the CRCs, referring them for court action or recall to custody when necessary, and for taking over cases where an offender's risk of serious harm has escalated to high.

After service transition, a new set of performance measures will be in place to reward the CRCs for managing offenders effectively, and to impose financial deductions or other contractual remedies on them when they do not. The service levels, measures and consequences of failing to meet them will be set out in the contracts with CRCs. However, it is important that such mechanisms do not disincentivise them from doing what they are required to do to make the system work effectively.

Providers will be incentivised to continue working with the hardest to reach and those who have already reoffended.

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