Substance Use Recovery Interventions for Justice Services

South Wales Police (the Commissioner) is the lead contracting party for Substance Use Recovery Interventions for Justice Services (previously Offender Intervention) for Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, Cwm Taf Morgannwg and the public sector prisons of His Majesty's Prisons Cardiff, Usk and Prescoed . The Services are also commissioned on behalf of His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service Wales.

The Contractor shall deliver the Service, ensuring drug and/or alcohol related offending is addressed by assessing, engaging and diverting Service Users out of crime and into appropriate interventions , reducing the risk of harm to Service Users and their families, peers and their wider communities.

The Contractor shall support the reduction of drug and/or alcohol related offending in accordance with the:

•Commissioner's Police, Crime and Justice Plan

• HMPPS priorities
• Wales Reducing Re-offending Strategy
• His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) report findings
• His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) report findings
• Integrated Offender Management Cymru Strategic Framework and Delivery Manual

The Contractor shall ensure the Service identifies and considers the barriers that individuals or groups may face in engaging with such Services and mitigate these to enable equity of Service.

Whilst the Commissioner is the sole contractual party, the Contractor is required to develop and sustain close working relationships with a number of other organisations in order to provide an effective Service throughout the Contract Period. Such organisations shall include (but not be limited to):

• Area Planning Boards ("APB's") for substance misuse in CAV and CTM
• HMPPS
• His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service
• South Wales Police (SWP)
• Local Health Boards
• Local Authorities
• Housing Contractors
• Other substance use services in Wales
• Others named or referred to throughout this Specification

The Contractor shall provide the Service in accordance with the:

• Welsh Government Substance Misuse Treatment Frameworks (SMTF)
• The objectives of South Wales Criminal Justice Board
• HMPPS in Wales Reducing Reoffending Plan

The Contractor shall provide assessment, diversion and engagement Services to adults, whose offending behaviour or criminogenic need is linked to substance use. The Contractor shall deliver the Services within custody suites, courts, community and the prison estate to Service Users who reside , or would normally be expected to reside*, within the following unitary local authority areas, namely:

• i.Bridgend
• ii.Cardiff
• iii.Vale of Glamorgan
• iv.Rhondda Cynon Taf
• v.Merthyr Tydfil

(*NB - currently in the prison estate within the UK and returning to one of the above local authority areas upon release, or those currently having no fixed /settled address but rough sleeping/staying within the area.)

The Contractor shall ensure that the Service is provided at all locations:

• With appropriate space available to offer group or private 1:1 support;
• With appropriate space in which to deliver the Service in an environment which meets the diverse needs and requirements of each Service User.

Bidders should note, optional requirements for additional location(s)/premise(s) have been included in the specification. The additional premise(s)/location(s) will be within the South Wales Police force area - this is not required at the moment but may be required during the Contract Period.