AIActive Inclusion

Funding programme – DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion1st June 2013 – 30th May 2015

Project Manager: Craig Georgiou

This project is co-funded by the European Union

Contents:• NOMS• Background• Project Summary• Partners• Project Delivery

• Plan and Timeline• Risks• Main products and outputs

• Final comments

What is NOMS?Preventing victims by changing lives

“The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) was created as an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice in April 2008 with the goal of helping prison and probation services work together to manage offenders throughout their sentences”.

NOMS

Offender

NOMS Structure…April 2013 1 Head Quarters

126 Prisons

3. Yorkshire & Humberside 3. Yorkshire & Humberside 11 public 2 private11 public 2 private

2. North East 2. North East 7 public 7 public

1. North West 1. North West 13 public 2 private13 public 2 private

4. Wales 4. Wales 3 public 1 private3 public 1 private

5. West Midlands 5. West Midlands 10 public 1 private10 public 1 private

6. East Midlands 6. East Midlands 14 public 2 private14 public 2 private

7. East of England 7. East of England 13 public 1 private13 public 1 private

8. South West 8. South West 13 public 1 private13 public 1 private

9. South Central 9. South Central 8 public8 public

10. Greater London 10. Greater London 12 public 1 private12 public 1 private

11. Kent & Sussex 11. Kent & Sussex 10 public10 public

Challenges?

• Less Resources• Growing Workload• Prisons at or beyond full capacity• Structural change• Strong Focus on, and public expectation of:

• Effectiveness• Assessment, end to end Offender Management, Interventions

• Value for Money• Specification, Costing and Benchmarking• Payment by Results

• Work with partners at local level• Statutory, Voluntary & Private Sectors, Volunteers, Social Enterprises

Background• ExOCoP (Ex-Offenders Community of Practice)• Madrid • Birmingham City Council, (outsourced monitors from DWP)• Excluded from work and mainstream society• Vulnerable groups

• Dispossessed Youth• Troubled families• Marginalised Communities

Project Summary•Support •Bringing together experts•Guide to employment•Identify tools•Increase integration into mainstream society•Find and Maintain employment•Confidence•Inform Management Authorities•A platform to meet discus and examine ideas

Active Inclusion cycle

Turkey

Serbia

Morocco Algeria Tunisia

Iceland

Norway

Russia

Belarus

Ukraine

Lebanon

SyriaIraq

Iran

Armen.

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Kazakhstan

Croatia

Denmark

Sweden(16)

Finland

Estonia

Latvia(6)

Lithuania(32)

Poland(4)

Malta

Cyprus

Bulgaria

Greece(6)

Slovakia(4)

Romania

Hungary

Luxemburg

Netherlands

Spain(6)

Portugal(4)

UnitedKingdom(102)

Ireland(6)

Czech Rep(2).

AustriaSwitzerland

Germany

(12)

France

Italy

(35)

KEY

No returns

1 to 10 returns

11 to 20 returns

21 to 30 returns

31 to 40 returns

41 to 50 returns

50 plus returns

280 Returns

(40)

(11)

Partners• NOMS, Project Director, Phil Taylor OBE• Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Martin Webber• EPANODOS” - Centre for the Resettlement of Ex-Offenders• Senate of Justice and Constitution for the Land of Bremen

(Senator für Justiz und Verfassung, Land Bremen)• Public Institution European Social Fund Agency, Lithuania• Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of

Offenders ‘NIACRO’• Department for Employment and Learning, ESF Managing

Authority, Northern Ireland• Svenska ESF-radet, Sweden• ESF Agentschap, Belgium (Flanders)

Partners• ERC European Research Centre• ISFOL – Istituto per lo sviluppo professionale dei lavoratori

(Institute for the development of workers vocational training)• Consorzio OPEN, Offenders Pathways to Employment National

Network. (Full partner)• Regione Piemonte – Directorate for Education, Vocational

training and Labour. (Full partner)• Liguria region, ESF MA (associate)• Emilia-Romagna Region, Department for Esf MA (associate)• Umbria Department for Esf MA (associate)• Veneto Directorate for Employment - Esf Planning and evaluation

Unit (associate)• Puglia Esf MA (associate)

• CEP, Koen Goei (associate)

Project Delivery: Timeline

18/01/2013 31/12/2014

01/04/2013 01/07/2013 01/10/2013 01/01/2014 01/04/2014 01/07/2014 01/10/2014

18/01/2013Kick Off Meeting

06/01/2014 - 01/09/2014Practitioner Meetings

01/03/2013 - 26/12/2013Expert Meetings

26/12/2013Expert meetings completed

01/09/2014Practitionerst meetings completed

ACTIVE INCLUSION LEARNING NETWORK TIMELINE

01/05/2013 - 18/12/2013Expert Meetings report

18/03/2014 - 04/11/2014Practitioners Meetings report

09/07/2013 - 08/05/2014Practitioner & Best Practice research

31/01/2013 - 06/06/2013Expert Research

19/11/2014Conference

22/12/2013Board Meeting

01/09/2014Board Meeting

18/01/2013 31/12/2014

01/04/2013 01/07/2013 01/10/2013 01/01/2014 01/04/2014 01/07/2014 01/10/2014

18/01/2013 - 24/02/2013Design Research

25/03/2013 - 25/10/2014Meta Analysis Inclusion research

19/11/2014Deliver findings Conference

22/12/2013Interim report to board

01/09/2014Final report to board

ACTIVE INCLUSION RESEARCH TIMELINE

Approach 1Active Inclusion Learning Network

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Expert/NGO meeting

Inclusion/Empowerment

Expert/NGO Meeting

Employment, Education &

Training

Expert/NGO Meeting

Homelessness

Expert/NGO Meeting

Offenders/Ex-Offenders

Expert/NGO MeetingDrug &

Alcohol Abuse

Expert/NGO Meeting

Mental Health physical & Learning

Disabilities

Expert/NGO Meeting

Multi Generational Unemployed

Expert/NGO Meeting

Anti Social BehaviourExpert/NGO

MeetingEducational

Problems

Expert/NGO Meeting

Offenders Families

Research report on Disaffected Youth

Practitioner/Expert Review,

Quality Assurance

Report on Homelessness/Drug

& Alcohol Abuse

Report on Offenders and Ex-Offenders/Mental Physical &

Learning Difficulities

Practitioner/Expert Review,

Quality Assurance

Report on Multi Generational

Unemployment/Offenders Families

Report on Anti Social Behaviour/

Educational Problems

Practitionar/Expert Review,

Quality Assurance

Active Inclusion Database

Report on ESF and Non ESF programmes and projects in

the EU

Practitioner/Expert Review,

Quality Assurance

Practitioner/Expert Review,

Quality Assurance

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Active Inclusion (AI) ConferenceActive Inclusion (AI) Conference

Disaffected Youth

Marginallised Communitties

Troubled Families

1st Steering group mtg

Steering Group Steering GroupFramework design

meeting

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Platform 1Workshops1, Disaffected Youth

(NEET)2, Disaffected

Youth,(Inclusion / Empowerment)

Expert/NGO Meeting

Platform 1Workshops1, Homelessness, 2, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 3, Offenders / Ex-offenders, 4, Mental and physical & Learning disabilities.

Platform 1Workshops1, Multi Generational

Unemployed2, Offenderas Families,

3, Educational problems4, Anti Social behaviour

Research report on

Disaffected Youth

Platform 2 WorkshopsPractitioner/Expert

Review,Quality Assurance

Report on Homelessness/Drug & Alcohol

Abuse/Offenders/

Physical and Learning

difficulities

Platform 2 Workshops1, Homelessness, Drugs

and Alcohol abuseQuality Assurance

2, Offenders, learning disabilities,

Quality Assurance

Report on Multi Generational

Unemployment/Offenders

Families/ Anti social behaviour/

Educational problems

Platform 2 Workshops1, Unemployment / Offenders Families

2, Educational problems / Anti Social

behaviour Quality Assurance

Active Inclusion Database

Report on ESF and Non ESF programmes and projects

in the EU

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Active Inclusion (AI) ConferenceActive Inclusion (AI) Conference

Disaffected Youth

Marginallised Communitties

Troubled Families

1st Steering group mtg Steering Group Steering Group

Framework design

meeting

Who do we work with

Minimal interventions to be ready for work

Needing help and assistance to move up to employment ready

People with the most complex needs

Active Inclusion Learning Network

Minimal interventions to be ready for work

Needing help and assistance to move up to employment ready

People with the most complex needs

Day 1• Plenery• Lunch• Workshops (small groups)• Coffee• Group discussion on key themes (5 Questions)• Feed back top point on each of the 5 questions

• Innovation• Learning• Critical success factors• Transferability• Other important points

Day 2• Sub theme groups• 10 ten given a review

• Identify the top 6• How

• All agree (we are happy with results) • Debate• Choose top 6

• Top 5 will be invited to Platform 2• Individual; questions or general points that need raising

Obstacles

• Collection of surveys• Survey evidence• Not enough literature for the systematic review• Too much literature• Expert identification• Expert availability• Economic crises

Project Delivery: Products

• Website• Knowledge Management section• Database of experts

• Guide to inform ESF Management Authorities• Information on obstacles• Opportunities to consider when implementing

interventions• Trans-national co-operation• Horizontal study

Project Delivery cont: Products

• Systematic review• Tested recommendations• 3 expert and NGO workshops• 3 practitioner and expert review workshops• 4 steering group meetings• International conference (60) • Report on findings translated into 3 languages

State of play• Systematic review underway

• First presented here (Troubled Families)• Surveys collected• First platform meeting delivered• Youth and Marginalised in Communities booked• Platform 2 meetings planned for end of 2014• Dissemination conference planned

• ISFOL, Rome

Final comments…• This Learning Network operates under the ESF framework of

encouraging trans-national collaboration and learning, with a focus on the Active Inclusion and the improvement of employability and employer awareness of marginalised communities.

• Although new and unique, the network will capitalise on the outcomes of surveys already carried out at a national and European level and the results of previous learning networks, in order to develop and improve the tools and strategies already shared and proved by member states. In the future it will continue to add value to the field through cooperation with other networks, through mutual support, communication and sharing of studies and findings.