1. How can social enterprise be made to fit within the prison service?
Rachel O’Brien
SERIF
November 2016

2. RSA (since 2008) and Transitions Spaces CIC (2015)
Background
RSA (since 2008) and Transitions Spaces CIC (2015)
The Learning Prison
(2008)
Transitions
(2011)
Building a Rehabilitation Culture (2014)
Masterplan and Business Design
(2015)
GJ Garden Design and Horticulture
The Humber Pilots
The Future Prison
(2016)

3. Core ideas and principles
Relentless focus on rehabilitation and risk reduction
Rehabilitation protects the public and benefits taxpayer in the long term.
Rehabilitation is social and requires and drives local buy in.
Permission to innovate requires new narrative and community involvement.
Identify, engage and utilise assets and positive networks
Prisoners as assets not liabilities.
Unlock governor discretion, leadership and staff potential.
MoJ fallow assets could be used through community asset transfer that allowed for new forms of investment, co-location and reinvestment.
Prisons and prisoners are locked away from the networks that they need to support and sustain rehabilitation.
Do not fly blind
Co-design and engage with service users, workforce and community.
Build on what exists through provider and commissioner engagement.
Thinking you make a difference is not good enough; identify your ethics but share and prove them.
Shared and aggregated evidence.

4. The Future Prison Project (2016)
Citizenship
Public engagement
Rehabilitation
Network effects
Community based approaches
Integration
Decentralisation
Workforce development

5. A Matter of Conviction (Oct 2016)
The Blueprint
Reduce risk through rehabilitation
The foundations
National rehabilitation strategy (prisons and probation)
New rehabilitative duty
Enhanced inspection regime
Smaller more resilience based NOMS at arms length
Phased process of devolution
Local prison boards and SPVs
Workforce and leadership development
Institutional culture and freedoms
The White Paper
Safety and reform
£104m 2,500 frontline staff (including ex-service recruitment and greater integration of some probation staff)
A SOS ‘duty to reform’
Enhanced inspection regime
League tables
Test in, test out
Governor autonomy?
Mentors and coaching

6. Or, maybe…
How could social enterprise approaches help to support prison reform?
What does social enterprise bring that others can’t to reducing risk through rehabilitation?
Could prisons be run as social enterprises?
And… why should anyone listen to us?

7. What does this mean for social enterprise?
A new mood?
A higher standard of evidence.
Renewed focus on employment and education.
Facilitate and incubate change
Co-produce homegrown responses
Provide opportunities for HMP income generation
SPVs and local assets.
Workforce development.
Change the conversation.
Define prison reform.