The National Offender Management Service  (NOMS) http://www.noms.homeoffice.gov.uk/ was created in 2004 to bring together the work of the Prison and Probation Services. A Regional Offender Manager (ROM) oversees the commissioning of services to manage offenders and deliver interventions to tackle offending behaviour.

 

In order to have a real impact on reoffending, however, it is necessary to draw on the contributions of  the Public, Business, and Faith, Voluntary and Community Sectors to deliver services, interventions and support across a range of issues that are known to affect the likelihood of reoffending. These fall into seven areas, or Pathways:

• Pathway 1: Accommodation
• Pathway 2: Education, training and employment
• Pathway 3: Health
• Pathway 4: Drugs and alcohol
• Pathway 5: Finance, benefit and debt
• Pathway 6: Children and families
• Pathway 7: Attitudes, thinking and behaviour

The  strategy for developing these partnerships and delivering  these interventions is described in the following documents:

• The National Reducing Re-offending Delivery Plan 

• The Reducing Re-offending VCS Community Alliance

• The Corporate Alliance for Reducing Re-offending

• The Reducing Re-offending Civic Society Alliance

Each ROM is responsible for developing a regional action plan in line with national strategies, to reduce re-offending by 10% by 2010. The West Midlands Reducing Re-offending Regional Action Plan 2005/06 was launched in May 2005.

 

The Action Plan will be reviewed during 2006 and further developments posted on this website.