1. Can social enterprise reduce reoffending?
Rachel O’Brien
May 2017

2. Assets and challenges Creative Problem solving Nimble
Local/hyper local
Client relationships
Impact
Co-design
Ambition
Context
Commissioning
Competition
Definition
Sustainability
Evidence
Collaboration
Aspiration
What could the NFN do to promote the assets and overcome challenges?

3. The New Futures Network (NFN)

4. NFN Relationship to reform
Gove, autonomy and the New Schools Network.
Truss, empowerment and primary legislation.
Promote, communicate and drive reform.
RSA as designer and honest broker.
‘Reform’ prisons 6 -12
NOMs – HMPPS
Structure/group directors
Commissioning freedoms
Prison and Courts Bill
Employment strategy
Leadership and workforce
Probation?
Centre of Excellence
Prisons’ purpose?
Protect the public,
Reform and rehabilitate
Prepare prisoners for life outside
Maintain an environment that is safe and secure.

5. The ‘vision’
The New Futures Network will drive partnerships and innovation to boost people’s chances of leaving crime behind.
It will increase capacity, through brokering sustainable strategic partnerships and effective cross-sector relationships that support rehabilitation, employment and skills.
It will champion good practice that supports rehabilitation through informing, engaging and persuading.
It will provide a channel of communication between frontline services and central government.

6. Work streams

7. The structure

8. PPCs/CJBs bring together
Police, CRCs, NPS, CPS, courts, health, housing and NGOs, Las, PCCs/CJBs
NFN post
NFN Local/LEGs
employers; CoC, IoD local members; LEPs; social enterprises and NGOs, LA employment and enterprise leads; FE, HE, HMP learning providers, NCS, DWP.
Embracing their ‘and Crime’ remit
Developing single vision, data sharing and integrated priorities.
Identifying employment as a priority in reducing reoffending.
Want effective ways to help people to become work ready and secure jobs.
Can champion the role of employers in reducing crime and the contribution prisoners and those on licence can make to the local economy.
Lack the levers or bandwidth to create employment networks or drive practice delivery
Understand the commercial needs of employers
Building on local employment and skills strategies linked to skills gaps and commissioning.
Develop, deliver and scale the Prison Apprenticeship Pathway, and ensure Centres of Excellence are sustainable and impactful.
Develop local strategic partnerships and social enterprises that increase the number of employers involved in training and employment inside prisons and committed to opening up jobs to those leaving custody and on licence.
Co-design ‘triage’ mechanisms that develop criteria and a filtering process to speed up delivery of effective employment partnerships.

9. Outcomes and indicators
What is the common thing we want to achieve?
Self-confidence
Self-efficacy
Supportive networks
Belonging
Purpose
Trusted relationships
Employability
Aspiration
Motivation…..
Wellbeing, which can be measured!

10. Indicators of well being (NEF)

11. Responding to the challenges
Context
Commissioning
Competition
Definition
Sustainability
Evidence
Collaboration
Aspiration
Whole person/system
Challenging orthodoxy
USPs/partnerships
Outcome based
Strategic relationships
Design in impact
Collaboration
The Bumble Bee!

12. RSA
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