Abstract
Without in any way minimising the continuing gaps in provision and the potential to do more, it is important to recognise that the Prison Service has made enormous progress with resettlement work in recent years. My predecessor renamed the Directorate of Regimes, transforming it into the Directorate of Resettlement, a change which signalled a new focus on outcomes and outward connections rather than process and internal procedures. We have been working ever more closely with colleagues in Probation and an increasingly wide range of other departments, agencies and voluntary and community organisations. The establishment of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) will bring structural changes, as the centre of the developing organisation takes responsibility for strategic policy. Quite when and how those changes will happen is not yet clear. But the establishment of NOMS is an important affirmation of the work we have been doing and an opportunity to take it to another level, through stronger and wi...
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