1. Cornwall VSF Promoting Change Project
Overview of CASSPlus
Cornwall VSF Promoting Change Project
Representation and influence of the voluntary sector
LCJB
Safer Cornwall Partnership Board

2. Background Information gathering Networking Triaging Referrals
First desk – Bodmin Magistrates Court 2005
Second desk – Plymouth Magistrates Court 2006
Third desk – Truro Magistrates Court 2011
CASS service becomes CASSPLUS charity – 2015
Information gathering
Networking
Triaging
Referrals
Advocacy
Data collection
Evaluation
Review

3. Who? Issues raised? Debt/benefits
Criminal Justice - Offenders and families
Tribunals – Appeals and Welfare Reform
Family Courts – Parties un-represented due to legal aid cuts
County Courts – Housing
Victims
Issues raised?
Debt/benefits
Housing/homelessness
Health/mental health
Substance misuse
Education/employment
Family
Criminal Justice
Other

4. How it works.. Operates at the point of crisis/most complex cases
Ease of access/drop-in
Operates independently
Holistic approach/cross sector
Volunteers/students/ex-offenders – open ended
Positive attitude to clients/flexible approach

5. Cornwall Promoting Change Project 2013 -2016

6. What was involved?
Innovative ways of supporting people with severe and multiple disadvantage in Cornwall. We focused on:
Women with complex needs
Young people in transition from youth to adult services

7. Learning http://www.cornwallvsf.org/
Presentation to Together for Families Board
Small grants tender
Engagement phase 1
Presentation to Safer Cornwall management Group
Influence Complex Needs project DAAT
The Offender Voice. Learning the Lessons Konnect Cornwall
Victims Pathway. Learning the Lessons Restorative Solutions
Female offender Research. Learning The Lessons. Plymouth University. Nov 2016
Justice Works event 1st March 2017

8. Representation Safer Cornwall Partnership Board LCJB
SSC Partnership Meetings
RJ Forum: CASSPLus

9. Safer Cornwall Partnership Board
One of 4 remaining statutory Boards in Cornwall
Crime and Disorder Act (1998) which placed responsibilities upon Local Authorities and the Police to work together to develop and implement a strategy to reduce crime and disorder in the local authority area.
Through positive partnership action, make communities safer by:
reducing crime and disorder including, anti social behaviour and other behaviour adversely affecting the local community and environment;
reducing re-offending;
reducing the harm caused by drugs, alcohol and other substances;
promoting public reassurance;
and delivering against our statutory duties under Prevent and Modern Slavery legislation.

10. Safer Cornwall Partnership Board
Three tiers
Safer Cornwall Partnership Strategic Board
Safer Cornwall Partnership Management Group
Safer Cornwall Partnership Thematic Delivery Groups

11. Membership 6.1 - Membership
Membership
Cornwall Council - Community Safety Manager
Community Safety Officers/Theme Leads
Amethyst
Anti Social Behaviour Co- ordinator
Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Strategy Manager
Area Manager (Trading Standards)
Localism Area Manager
Fire and Rescue Service
Police – Partnership Inspectors and Sergeant
Health –Programme Manager Mental Health NHS Kernow
Priority Leads (if not already represented above)
HWBB
Together for Families
Isles of Scilly Community Safety Partnership (invitee)
Job Centre Plus
Housing
 Community Rehabilitation Company
National Probation Service
Youth Offending Team – Manager Drug and Alcohol Action Team - Commissioning Manager
Voluntary sector

12. Influence Typical Agenda Influence ASB Strategy Risk register
Quarter Two Performance and Risk Log
ASB Strategy Consultation 1
Peninsular mental Health project Final Report and Recommendations
Local Alcohol Action Area Phase 2 Bid
Influence
Risk register
Request Impact assessments
Respond to consultation report
Support comms
Report on budget impacts on Voluntary sector
‘Equal partnership’

13. Local Criminal Justice Board
The Government has established 42 criminal justice areas, each with a Local Criminal Justice Board (LCJB).
The Devon & Cornwall Criminal Justice Board (DCCJB) formally assumed its responsibilities on 1 April Local Criminal Justice Boards operate on a non-statutory basis and represent a new way of doing business within the criminal justice system, through better co-ordinated and more cohesive working arrangements.
Charged with establishing and delivering, at local level, targets to support the achievement of national objectives for the criminal justice system that are designed to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the criminal justice system.

14. Local Criminal Justice Board
Chief Constable
Chief crown prosecutor
Police and Crime Commissioner
Devon Youth offending Team
HMCTS
HMPS
Voluntary Sector representation
Chief Executive OPCC
Chief Executive CRC
NPS
Legal Aid Agency

15. LCJB Priorities 2016 - 2017 Efficiency in the Court Process
Best Use of Technology in the Criminal Justice System
Improved Services to Victims and Witnesses
Mental Health
Reducing Reoffending
plan is a multi-agency commitment to deliver a set of national and local objectives, which have been identified through a process of consultation with key stakeholders
committed to improving criminal justice services to the communities across Devon and Cornwall. Our members work in partnership to deliver an effective and innovative criminal justice system across the Devon and Cornwall Peninsula.

16. Meeting structures to facilitate agencies being able to deliver the LCJB plan. The following structures will be in place during 2016/17;
Regional TSJ/BCMI Strategic Board
Regional TSJ/BCMI Operations Group
Strategic Prosecution Team Performance Management (PTPM) Devon and Cornwall
Joint Working Forum (Devon and Cornwall)
CVRC Project Board (Devon and Cornwall)
Peninsula Mental Health meeting (Devon and Cornwall)
Reducing Reoffending Board (Devon and Cornwall)

17. Challenges LCJB
At a strategic level some of the lack of clarity and uncertainty derives from the non-statutory basis of the local criminal justice boards, with the resultant lack of statutory authority.
Whilst at a national level the Board is seen as a key driver of criminal justice reform
As a corporate entity Chief Officers can only seek to influence change and cannot hold others to account.
Because of this anomalous position it was not always possible to see how strategic intent had been turned into effective change at an operational level.

18. Challenges LCJB
Geographical size of the criminal justice area raises logistical issues for the local criminal justice agencies and the LCJB
The distances between major business centres impacts on resource time and can create difficulties for the administration of justice,
time taken for victims, witnesses and defendants to get to court.
Issues of rurality mean that the LCJB has to work hard to remain visible as a leader in driving forward criminal justice improvements.
Money/only one officer/no budget

19. Influence Challenge to transparency
Reflection on ‘human lives’ v process and cost savings
Whole person approach
Message from third sector re budget implications within local authorities
Presentation to LCJB Feb 2017: Plymouth female Offender ‘Learning the Lessons report’ Nov 2016
Requested RJ Review to be brought to LCJB
Requested presentation from PCC re RJ
Requested independent review of third sector experiencing of commissioning Victims services
Virtual courts: third sector engagement
Virtual Courts: Client engagement

20. Voluntary Sector Representation LCJB
Challenges
I can’t know everything
Cross border engagement
Timeliness
Access
Knowledge of sector outside of Cornwall
Timeliness of agenda
Opportunities
Opportunities for influence
Cross border engagement
Cross Border representation
Cross Border reporting