Recommendation 160

We also heard about Integrated Offender Management (IOM), which the Government defines as “a cross-agency response to the crime and reoffending threats faced by local communities”. 295 Pavan Dhaliwal told us that IOM provides a “good example” of “where the different agencies are working together in a really intense way, particularly when you are working with a cohort of people where the drivers around poverty, trauma and discrimination are playing out through substance misuse and mental health issues”. 296 Justin Russell welcomed “a revival of investment in integrated offender management” involving “joint police and probation teams working together, sharing an office, hopefully with drugs workers and employment workers, doing joint home visits and really getting on top of the people who are the most prolific offenders in a local area”. 297 Box 6: Devolution of justice powers to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority