Seven Pathways
Pathway 1 : Accommodation
Having somewhere to live and appropriate support helps offenders live more stable lives and to access support. The number of offenders leaving prison without anywhere to live has been cut by a third since April 2004.
Pathway 2 : Education, Training and Employment
Offenders often do not have the basic skills necessary to find and keep a job. The number of basic skills qualifications gained by offenders has increased more than ten-fold in two years. More than 10% of adults who gain basic skills qualifications are doing so from prison.
Nationally there has been a 40% increase in the number of offenders leaving prison with a job to go to.
Pathway 3 : Health
People within the criminal justice system often have problems gaining access to health and social care.
Prmary Care Trusts have taken on responsibility for healthcare in the majority of prisons. 300 specialist places for people suffering from dangerous and severe personality disorder have been established.
Pathway 4 : Drugs and Alcohol
Substance misuse is strongly associated with offending, with one survey showing around two thirds of arrestees testing positive for drugs.
Pathway : Finance, Benefit and Debt
Ex-offenders can face particular financial problems, including access to benefits. Our aim is to ensure that there is an early assessment of financial problems so that offenders have access to financial and advice services that will help them to acquire the skills to manage their own finances.
Pathway 6 : Children and Families
Offenders’ families can be affected by the offender’s behaviour and punishment, but can also be a source of support and stability.
Our aim is to strengthen family ties, support children and families and reduce reoffending, by providing support such as parenting skills training, improving families’ ability to keep in contact with and visit prisoners, provide information on mainstream services and to develop local community family support and advice services.
Pathway 7 : Attitudes, Thinking and Behaviour
Their are 40 different independently accredited cognitive skills programmes for offenders. These include general offending behaviour programmes and more specialist interventions including programmes for sexual and violent offenders, and substance abuse treatment programmes.
