Issue - meetings

The Board considered a discussion paper on PPO’s and received feedback on the scheme. Noted the important strands to this work: ‘prevent and deter’ for young offenders, ‘catch and bring to justice’ and ‘rehabilitate and resettle’ which involves the Police and Probation services. The Board were advised that the work of the Drugs Intervention Programme was linked to this work, which was performing well but could still be further improved with further commitment from the required agencies. Noted that partners should be asked to provide a premium service and give tighter focus to this issue.

The Board were informed that Aiden Gibson had been appointed as DIP champion.

The Board further learned that resources for next year, to take this project forward, would require consideration. Noted that the Police had provided resources and the Probation Service would need to further consider adding more resources to this project.

The Board sought clarification on the average numbers of participants on the PPO scheme with information sought on their ages and profile. In response it was noted that there was a rolling number of 40 participants on the second two strands of the scheme. The eligibility for entering the scheme (at Prevent and Deter) was those young people who had were at risk of becoming PPO’s and had already been convicted of up to five offences.

RESOLVED

That the Board note the update.