Recommendation 168

The second way of commissioning services is through the “Regional Outcomes and Innovation Fund” (ROIF), which is funding made available by HMPPS to regional probation directors to commission services locally. 308 Justin Russell described this as a “devolved funding stream, where individual regional directors have an innovation fund which they give out as grants to smaller organisations that are not currently providing any of the other services”. He told us that this “has been a positive thing, but it is a small amount of money”. 309 The 2021 commissioning process