As lead commissioner, to award a grant to
undertake a pilot sex offender programme with experienced providers
We are Survivors and Back on Track. The evaluation from the pilot,
led by a PhD graduate, will be used to commission a longer-term
contract for a service in Greater Manchester.
The cost of the pilot programme is set out below:
Total for Year 1 to 3 for delivery
GMCA (51%) £219,354.06
HMPPS (49%) £210,751.94
Total cost £430,106
From which £372,106 to be paid to:
Back on Track £193,545
We are Survivors £178,561
Total cost £372,106
Costings for the PhD student
Total for Year 1 to 4 for evaluation (this is a 3.5 year
evaluation)
Start date
September 2024 £100,333.00
The Greater Manchester Sex Offender Programme pilot project is
developed as an alternative model to supporting people convicted of
sexual offences (PCOSOs) in Greater Manchester.
This is to contribute to the prevention of sexual re-offending by
PCOSOS, who are facing multiple disadvantages, by supporting
individuals to process their own trauma and develop a more
pro-social sense of self.
The project is solely for people who have convictions for sexual
offences (online and contact) and who are still under the
supervision of a probation practitioner and police liaison
officer.
Agencies involved:
• Greater Manchester Probation Service
• Greater Manchester Police - Sex Offender Management
Unit
• Greater Manchester Combined Authority – Justice and
Rehabilitation
• Back on Track (BoT)
• We Are Survivors
• Community Services: GMIRS, VCSE
A PhD candidate will provide essential evaluation information which
will be used to inform future commissioning on a longer term basis.
Focussing on an ‘Appraisal of the Value of Therapeutic
Community Resettlement for People with Convictions for Sexual
Offences in Greater Manchester’. The PhD It will be hosted in
the Department of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at
the University of Manchester. The academic research question the
studentship will address is:
What should be done to reduce the risks of reoffending among
convicted sex offenders whose offending is foregrounded in multiple
disadvantage, previous victimisation and/or substance use and poor
mental health?