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731516

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date	21/06/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many community rehabilitation companies are in dispute with his Department on the payment mechanism.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	David Hanson
uin	377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>No Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) is in formal dispute with the department. We have undertaken an overarching review of probation, looking at the standards we set for providers and how we hold them to account. We have already made some changes to how CRCs are paid so they can focus on activities that best rehabilitate offenders and keep society safe. The details of these negotiations are commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 30/06/2017 13:37:52 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

731519

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many financial penalties have been incurred by (a) number and (b) financial value by community rehabilitation companies in (i) England, (ii) Wales and (iii) each county in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	David Hanson
uin	378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>This information is commercially sensitive.</p><p> </p><p>We hold providers rigorously to account for their performance and take action wherever they are falling short. Our contract management teams closely monitor and robustly manage providers to make sure they fulfil their contractual commitments to maintain service delivery, reduce reoffending, protect the public and provide value for money to the taxpayer. If standards are not met, financial penalties can be applied through Service Credits. Service Credits are a payment made by the Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) back to the Government, as a means of compensating for services under the contract where the CRC fails to meet the contractual service levels expected.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 30/06/2017 13:39:36 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

731578

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many service users main contact with the community rehabilitation company is by telephone, in each community rehabilitation company in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	David Hanson
uin	519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Community Rehabilitation Companies came into existence on 1 June 2014 and ownership was transferred to new rehabilitation providers on 1 February 2015. We have since undertaken an overarching review of probation, looking at the standards we set for providers and how we hold them to account and will be publishing our findings in due course.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 376 question first answered 30/06/2017 13:35:54 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

731622

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve National Probation Service effectiveness for cases (a) of domestic abuse and (b) involving the safeguarding of children.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	David Hanson
uin	522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>The National Probation Service (NPS) is responsible for assessing the level of risk posed by each offender under its supervision and ensuring that a robust plan is in place to manage any risk which the offender presents with respect to domestic abuse or to harming children. Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) has recently created a Directorate to lead a major programme to ensure that the NPS’s operational practice is of the highest standard. All NPS staff are required to complete a training package on child safeguarding and domestic abuse and repeat the training, every three years to ensure that their knowledge and skills are kept up to date.</p><p> </p><p>To support its contribution to local multi-agency arrangements, the NPS has developed a series of National Partnership Strategy Frameworks. They cover the NPS’s involvement in multi-agency risk assessment conferences (MARACs) for high risk domestic abuse victims and Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs).</p><p> </p><p>(a) For domestic abuse, NPS staff are required to be alert to the possibility that there might be issues relating to domestic abuse in every case they manage and not just in those cases where the offender is already convicted of an offence in which domestic abuse is involved. The NPS is able to purchase specialist interventions from the Community Rehabilitation Companies to address the risk of domestic abuse. The then National Offender Management Service (NOMS), now Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service, produced and promulgated updated Domestic Abuse Guidance in August 2016.</p><p> </p><p>(b) The NPS issued a Child Safeguarding Policy Statement in January this year, to replace interim guidance. NPS staff now have access to a range of safeguarding toolkits, information, quality assurance tools and practice guidance. In addition, the NPS has produced and promulgated a guide to staff supervising perpetrators of child sexual exploitation.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 30/06/2017 13:38:09 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson