GETTING STARTED David Perry Resident Twinning Advisor EU Turkish Probation Project Developing Probation in Central & Eastern Europe: Sustainable Growth Budapest 1-3 March 2006

Getting started or organisational survival? Getting started or organisational survival? Stakeholder support Stakeholder support Getting the money Getting the money Start big, start small? Start big, start small? Essential building blocks… Essential building blocks… Negotiating the corners…. Negotiating the corners….

Getting started Getting started or ensuring organisational survival? Getting started or ensuring organisational survival?

Stakeholder Support A Range of Stakeholders A Range of Stakeholders –Politicians –Prosecutors & Judiciary –NGOs –Community –Media Stakeholder Management Stakeholder Management –Understanding what probation means –Communications strategy –Dealing with the past – resistance?? –Crisis management

Getting the money Benefits Benefits –Rehabilitation/reintegration? –Reductions in re-offending? –Protection of the public? –Reductions in prison population? –Restorative justice? Cost benefit analysis? Cost benefit analysis? Demonstrating outcomes? Demonstrating outcomes?

Start big, start small? Pilots Pilots –Risks? –Benefits? National service National service –Risks? –Benefits? Strategic planning Strategic planning

Essential building blocks…. What must be done in the first year… What must be done in the first year… Medium term building blocks Medium term building blocks Longer term development Longer term development

Negotiating the corners….. What are the roadblocks…..and the solutions!!! What are the roadblocks…..and the solutions!!! What are the elephant traps? What are the elephant traps? Future threats? Future threats? Celebrating success Celebrating success