Immediate Justice and reparative services

Following a pilot for Immediate Justice in ten trailblazer areas across England and Wales the UK Government have decided to roll it out across all other force areas of England and Wales. Immediate Justice will ensure that perpetrators of anti-social behaviour and relevant crimes are held accountable for their behaviour, whilst providing victims and communities with a voice in how they would like offenders to make amends

Utilising existing Criminal Justice frameworks, Immediate Justice is applicable as an Out of Court Resolution (OoCR) i.e. Community Resolution or Conditional Caution, identified through the Community Remedy document. Offenders will be required to undertake unpaid community work with an ambition for them to start that work as soon as 48 hours after referral to the Immediate Justice Reparation Service provider, so victims know anti-social behaviour is treated seriously and with urgency.

The Surrey Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner (OPCC) and Surrey Police are seeking to roll out Immediate Justice across the whole county. To facilitate this within an appropriate timescale, we are seeking a single service provider to manage Immediate Justice reparative activities for adults across Surrey. This provider must have previous experience and expertise in facilitating and delivering reparative activities or similar.

The Surrey OPCC has been provided additional funding from HM Government to deliver the Immediate Justice pilot for the financial year 2024/25 from 1st October 2024 to 31st March 2025. The maximum allocated budget to deliver the service across Surrey is ?175k.

Whilst funding has only been confirmed for the last 6 months of 2024/25 there is potential for continued funding and therefore the contract includes 3 x 1-year potential extension options. The agreement of any extensions would be performance and funding dependent, and the funding level for a full year has not currently been established but is expected to be in the region of ?250K. Any extensions would be with the expectation that the Successful Tenderer is able to provide services within the budgets set, the OSPCC will be unable to support any additional costs that exceed the funding received from HM Government.

Objectives

The objective of the procurement process is to establish a fully managed Immediate Justice delivery service across Surrey.

To reduce incidents of crime and anti-social behaviour, by holding perpetrators to account through the delivery of up to 50 cases of swift and visible reparative activities across Surrey per month.

To reduce re-offending by adopting a Restorative Justice approach alongside the reparative activity.

10. The following core criteria that must be met as part of the Funded Service:

• oProvide a fully managed service across Surrey.

• oReparative services should meet the definition of the Crown Prosecution Service guidance as anything involving perpetrators perso...

Additional information: A new project has been publised to the website. Project: Immediate Justice, Project Reference: JPS1520. Click this link to go to the web site

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Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No