How we manage offenders

Reducing re-offending

Offenders are one of the most excluded groups within society and reducing re-offending means further developing our cross-government work while also building alliances at regional and local levels.

The challenge is to transform the offender into the citizen. It means ensuring appropriate monitoring and supervision, working together to tackle drug and alcohol abuse, improving offenders’ basic skills, tackling their offending behaviour and improving the chances of them getting a job.

It means helping them get decent accommodation and it means working with the children and families of offenders and trying to break the cycle of offending.

Through the work of the seven NOMS pathways to reduce re-offending we are creating opportunities and providing services to offenders.

We know that what we are doing is making a difference to reducing re-offending. We are already halfway towards our long-term ambition of reducing re-offending by 10% by 2010.