Public Protection

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Public Protection SafeguardingTwo key aspects
of Youth Offending work
- Achieving the Possible

• Andrew Bridges
• HM Chief Inspector of Probation

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Many important aspects to YO work
Work withparents
Inspectionuniquely suitable for
Preventive work
Specialistwork
Public Protection
Constructiveengagement
Work withvictims
Safeguarding
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Two headline terms (or one?)
Public Protection
Safeguarding
Risk of Harm to others(RoH)
risk of harm from othersor risk of harm to
self(vulnerability)
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A range of services to a range of service
recipients
Potential victims
The parents
Young person or child beingsupervised
Current victims
Others?
Doing the right thingwith the right individual
in the right way at the right timei.e. a
tailored individualised service
NOT a One-size-fits-all service
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Purposes to achieve with C YPs
Make reoffending less likely while also
implementing the sentence
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Purposes to achieve with C YPs
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Achieving integrated effective practice
Defining what Success looks like
Simple to Say
Difficult to Do
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Achieving integrated effective practice

Design
Define


Desire
Tools
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Achieving integrated effective practice
Design
Define
IntegratedEffectivePractice
Tools
Desire
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Measuring outcomes?
You must increase your success rate from 99.4
to 99.5!
NOT feasible withPublic Protectionand /
orSafeguarding
Very LOW probability
Very HIGH impact
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Outcome all reasonable action
Public Protection
Safeguarding
Taking all reasonable action to keep to a
minimum the offenders Risk of Harm to others.
Taking all reasonable action to keep to a
minimum the risk of a child or y.p. coming to
harm.
Simple to Say Difficult to Do
Lists of potential victims
Lists of potential offenders
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Joint Purpose Individual Contributions
Different component services make their
different Individual Contributions (ICs) towards
the Joint Purpose (JP). Each IC to the JP needs
to be made effectively.
Individual Contribution (IC)
Individual Contribution (IC)
Individual Contribution (IC)
Joint Purpose (JP)Working togetherwell enough
tokeep risks to aminimum
Individual Contribution (IC)
Individual Contribution (IC)
Individual Contribution (IC)
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Joint Purpose Individual Contributions
Different ICs are inspected/assessed at different
times, but they are taken into account, as they
become available, in the regular inspections of
the Joint Purpose
Individual Contribution (IC)
Individual Contribution (IC)
Individual Contribution (IC)
Joint Purpose (JP) Ofsteds SafeguardingInspecti
ons (x3yrs)
Individual Contribution (IC) made by Youth
Offending work IYO inspections
Individual Contribution (IC)
Individual Contribution (IC)
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Achieving the possible
a catastrophic event is not necessarily a sign
of a failure
all reasonable action
..cannot eliminate risk completely..
Blame the practitioner? Judgement by
hindsight?
NO
murderscould not have been foreseen..
NO
- i.e. all reasonable action had been taken
all reasonable action a qualitative
judgement
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Measurement by Qualitative judgements (case
reviews inspections)
Qualitativejudgements
Qualitative judgement
With each case inspected
With each item of work(if applicable to that
case)
Sufficient (above the line)
Key judgement(above or below the line?)
Not sufficient (below the line)
Qualitativejudgements
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Qualitative judgements of - what, exactly?
Whether with each case
Must Planas well asAssess
Identify any PP / S issue
Assessing Planning the case sufficiently well
Intervening with the case sufficiently well
Whats the problem?
Assess its natureWho? What? When?etc
Responding sufficiently tochanging events / new
info
What will be done about it?
Achieving the Outcome sufficiently well All
reasonable action
Plan to manage it
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Constructive Restrictive interventions
Actions where the individual learns or gains so
that he or she is more likely to behave more
positively in future
Constructive interventions
Authorities restrict the opportunity the
individual has tobe of harm to others, or to be
harmed by self or others
Restrictive interventions
Healthy Hindsight in Advance?
Defensible Decision-making? (Kemshalls
principles)
Could we give a good account of the decisions
we made, even if there were a later catastrophe?
Could we show that we had taken all reasonable
action?
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Summary of Case Inspections of Public Protection
Safeguarding
WITH EACH INDIVIDUAL
OVER THE WHOLE SAMPLE OF CASES
Sufficient quality of assessment ... ?
How often is the Public Protection and
Safeguarding work done well enough?
Sufficient quality of interventions ... ?
?Public Protection scores x Safeguarding
score y
Sufficient quality of responsiveness to news?
Inspection methodology transparent - basis for
potential self-assessments
Sufficient outcomes - Defensible decisions
All reasonable action
Inspection thus promotes Improvement - helping
practitioners managers toAchieve the Possible