Source · Select Committees · Justice Committee
Recommendation 20
20
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Confirm full rollout of Offender Management in Custody (OMiC) and provide keyworker allocation timeline.
Recommendation
We welcome the implementation of the Offender Management in Custody model in 2021. The Ministry of Justice should confirm whether OMiC has now been rolled out fully across the female estate, and if it has not, the MoJ should set out a timeline for achieving this, including when it is anticipated that all women will be allocated a keyworker.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government accepted the recommendation but responded with general information about reducing violence and enhancing prison safety, including a £37 million investment and an innovations taskforce. It did not confirm the full rollout of the OMiC model across the female estate or provide a timeline for keyworker allocation.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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We accept this recommendation. OMiC Key Work and Case management has now been fully rolled out across the women’s estate, meaning all women will receive key work time. The model that has been developed for women allocates resources based on level of need as well as risk. Sentenced women assessed as having the most need or presenting the highest risk receive an enhanced case-management service which includes additional time with their Prison Offender Manager (POM) rather than Key Work with a Band 3 Officer. This approach has been taken so that women can develop a relationship with one person, and because the boundaries between what is key work and what is sentence management cannot always be easily defined for those women who have the most need. Many of the issues linked to an individual’s complexity of need will often be underpinning or relevant to their offending behaviour which a POM is best placed to help them address and support them with.
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