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Recommendation 7
7
Accepted
Publish Professor Moran's report and ensure all IPP programmes deliver adequate outcomes for prisoners
Recommendation
The Government should publish the commissioned report from Professor Paul Moran into the Offender Personality Disorder pathway by December 2022. In addition, the MoJ and HMPPS should set out what work is being done to ensure that all programmes delivered and relied upon by HMPPS and the Parole Board deliver adequate outcomes for prisoners; and, where they do not, they should set out the process for reviewing delivery of those programmes. (Paragraph 81) Parole, release on licence and community-based barriers to progression
Government response summary AI-generated
The government stated Professor Paul Moran’s report on the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway was published on Gov.uk on October 13, 2022. It also commits to reviewing current IPP prisoner case management in custody and refreshing guidance on IPP Progression Panels.
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Government Response
Accepted
HM Government · verbatim extract
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Reasoning: Whilst we do not agree with the report’s suggestion that the accreditation approach is ineffective, we do agree that there should be transparency in relation to the evaluation of our specialist provision. The national evaluation of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway (Professor Moran’s report) was published on the Gov.uk website on 13th October 2022. Outcomes from the delivery of any accredited programme will depend on a number of factors, including the prisoner’s engagement with the accredited programme and subsequent commitment to apply the lessons learned from the programme. Each accredited programme is scrutinised by the Correctional Services Advice and Accreditation Panel (CSAAP) who are independent, international academics and practitioners. They provide recommendations to HMPPS that inform Accredited Programme status by reviewing their design, quality assurance and evaluations in line with latest international evidence on what works in reducing reoffending. We were pleased to appoint such expertise to CSAAP in January 2022 and have outlined more about their role and membership publicly here. The MoJ is committed to developing the rehabilitation evidence base and has an ongoing programme of evaluation for accredited programmes, using a range of approaches including the impact on reoffending, and studies have been published on gov.uk. Where studies have shown a programme has not been performing, we have replaced them. Evaluation is supported by programme implementation assessment to provide ongoing insight as quality of delivery has been shown by the international evidence and MoJ/HMPPS evaluations to be associated with reductions in reoffending. IPP sentences: Government and Parole Board Responses to the Committee’s Third Report 7
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