Our 'TR So Far' Blog Series
Clinks' Policy Team have been writing a regular blog series, 'TR So Far', which follows developments in the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reform programme. The series asks some key questions about the impact that the reforms are likely to have on the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Sector:
- What are the the known unknowns?
- Will the reforms promote desistance and how will this be measured?
- Does it give a fair deal to the VCSE Sector?
- Will it ensure suitable services for all?
The final blog in the series will be published this week and asks whether the reforms will enable the involvement of service users and community members in the design and delivery of services. Look out for 'TR So Far (5)' in Light Lunch. In the meantime, click on the links below to read the blogs, and contribute to the discussion in the comments section:
TR So Far (4): Will it ensure suitable services for all?
Posted by Clare Hayes on November 25th, 2013In this blog, Clare raises some ideas and questions about what TR could mean for equalities groups and specialist service provision. The question of whether large-scale, prime-contractor commissioning can be reconciled with tailored, community-centred responses to individual need has been a persistent concern for Clinks and many of our smaller members in recent times.
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TR So Far (3): Does it give a fair deal to the VCSE Sector?
Posted by Ellie Cumbo on November 14th, 2013In the third of our ‘TR So Far’ blog series, Ellie reflects on the question that’s perhaps most pressing for Clinks Members contemplating, or already in the process of, work with a Tier 1 (prime) service provider under Transforming Rehabilitation: can the Sector expect a fair deal?
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TR So Far (2): Will the reforms promote desistance and how will this be measured?
Posted by Nicola Drinkwater on October 30th, 2013The second blog in our ‘TR So Far’ series sets out some of our concerns about the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) agenda. Nicola examines whether TR is likely to support the desistance process and how this will be measured. Desistance is a highly individualised process, experienced differently by different people and is very likely to involve an individual relapsing, before they stop offending altogether. Researchers often distinguish between primary desistance, which refers to any lull or gap in a person’s offending and secondary desistance, which refers to a more deep seated change in an individual where they develop an identity as a ‘non-offender.’
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TR So Far (1): The Known Unknowns
Posted by Jessica Mullen on October 09th, 2013Members will hopefully have seen Clinks’ initial briefing on opening of the Transforming Rehabilitation competition, where we said our ongoing scrutiny of the process would look at the following four questions: Does it promote desistance and how will this be measured? Does it give a fair deal to the VCSE Sector? Will it ensure suitable services for equalities groups? Will it enable the involvement of service users and community members as volunteers in the design and delivery of services?
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