Recommendation 100

The question was raised of how male offenders could benefit from this practice. Carrie Peters, Director of Justice Services at Ingeus, told us that “we need men’s services to be commissioned in a holistic way by region in the same way that women’s services are” because “men also have multiple and complex needs”. She explained that “women’s services have been commissioned in a holistic way” but “men’s services have been commissioned according to all the separate needs”. As a result, she said, “for someone who finds it difficult to engage, we are setting up all sorts of hurdles for them, because they have to go to all these different places, and nothing facilitates all those different providers talking to each other and working together”. She added that “at the moment, every contract is managed separately, and there is a lot of waste in the system for all those individual contracts”. 190