Reducing Re-offending National Action Plan
Reducing crime and public protection are top priorities for the Government. Crime can have a devastating effect on the lives of victims, families and communities with extraordinary costs to society as a whole.
This Reducing Re-offending National Action Plan fulfils the Government’s commitment to reduce re-offending.
It aims to address concerns raised by the Social Exclusion Unit’s report on Reducing re-offending by ex-prisoners (new window) and takes forward two important Government manifesto commitments:
- to ensure that punishment and rehabilitation are both designed to minimise re-offending
- to improve the education of those offenders in custody
Over sixty national action points have been agreed across Government, covering all the key areas, or pathways, to support the rehabilitation of offenders, in a concerted effort to reduce re-offending. For each agreed action point, the Plan suggests complementary activity for the consideration of those working at the regional and local level.
There will be a particular focus on the resettlement of offenders receiving custodial sentences but there is also important action specifically directed at the needs of those sentenced in the community.
The Plan will build on the good progress which has been made, and support the radical changes which we are making toreduce re-offending through the creation of a National Offender Management Service (NOMS). Acomplementary strategy is being developed in Wales, led by the Prison and Probation Services and the Welsh Assembly Government.
Date: Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 BST 2004
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