NOMS Commissioning and the
North West
Patrick Connelly
Senior Commissioning Manager
Commissioning and Commercial Directorate
NOMS funded provision in the North West
• 5 Probation Trusts – co-terminus with counties
• 16 prisons – 13 Public Sector (1 Juvenile, 1
Women’s and 1 competed), 2 contracted, 1 High
Security
• Electronic Monitoring
• European Social Fund – Achieve NW
• Bail Accommodation and Support Service
• Attendance Centres
NOMS changing Headquarters structures and
functions
• Four main Directorates
• Commissioning and Commercial Directorate
– Functional design – community, custody and co-commissioning
– North West and West Midlands “patch” for community and
custodial commissioning
• Reduced Headquarters capacity
• Increased expectations of providers to
lead/influence local commissioning
• National Commissioning Intentions published –
comments welcome
– http://www.justice.gov.uk/about/noms/commissioning.htm
Commissioning Intentions
• Evidence based commissioning with scope for
innovation
• Efficient delivery of “minimum requirements”
• Expectations of main providers:
– Develop local profiles and segmentation of offender population
– Sub-contracting
• Focus investment on proven interventions for high
risk of harm/reoffending offenders
• Disinvest from less effective/unproven interventions
Current/upcoming commissioning
• Prison substance misuse services – PCTs and
DAATs
• Offender Learning and Skills – Skills Funding
Agency
• Community Payback
• Prison Visitor Service contracts
• Prison competitions
• European Social Fund
• Grants
Developing themes
• Payment by Results pilots
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Custody – Contracted Prisons
Custody – Public Sector Prisons
Community – Probation Trusts
Voluntary Sector – Innovation
• Justice reinvestment
– Transforming Justice in Greater Manchester and London
• Community Budgets