The Commissioner works in partnership with criminal justice organisations across the peninsula and chairs the Reducing Offending Board for the South West region (Avon & Somerset, Devon & Cornwall, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire).
The South West Reducing Reoffending Partnership was established in March 2019 and brings together partners from across the South West to support multi-agency work to tackle some of the main causes of reoffending, such as lack of accommodation, access to health services and employment opportunities.
The South West Reducing Reoffending Partnership is not a formal governance body, but works together in partnership with goodwill and shared goals to reducing reoffending.
Together, it represents criminal justice in the South West at a senior leadership level (except the Crown Prosecution Service and the Courts/Judiciary, these partners are liaised with via Local Criminal Justice Boards).
By working in partnership as a region we can help affect how we can work more impactfully and consistently at a local level. We are currently working together to tackle drugs and mental health concerns within the Criminal Justice System.
We are ambitious for our region and will fully implement the availability of mental health treatment requirements through the courts across the whole of the South West.
Key areas of focus:
- Housing/accommodation
- Employment/skills
- Integrated offender management
- Education
Membership of SWRRP
The membership of the SWRRP includes the Police and Crime Commissioners and Chief Executives of Avon & Somerset; Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly; Dorset; Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. It also has representatives from:
- Police, including the Regional Assistant Chief Constable
- HM Prison Service, including HMP Eastwood Park
- HM Probation Service
- NHS England
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
- UK Health Security Agency
- Youth Justice Service
- Ministry of Justice
- Department for Work and Pensions
- South West councils
- Clinks, representing the community and voluntary sector