Increasing the Voluntary and Community Sector’s Involvement in
Integrated Offender Management
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
Apr. 23, 2012
ANNOTATION: “Integrated Offender Management (IOM) aims to reduce re-offending through local agencies taking a partnership approach to the management of repeat offenders. As part of an undertaking to increase voluntary and community sector (VCS) involvement in service delivery, the Home Office set up an initiative to provide small grants to VCS organisations to work with IOM partnerships” (p. i). This report looks at how funding VCSs contributed to the support of the IOM. Six sections follow an executive summary: context and approach; the funding model; the funded projects; stakeholder perceptions of the funding mechanism; involving the VCS in IOM—what it meant for the local areas—benefits and challenges; and conclusions and implications. “Brokerage organisations nationally and locally played a crucial role in ensuring timely and effective access to local VCS organisations, strengthening the VCS voice, and enabling the shift to a more hands-off approach by the Home Office” (p. 23). This program may be tweaked to fit situations at the local level in the in the United States.
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