NOMS – Reducing Re-Offending – Tender for Infrastructure Grant

Description: Overview: NOMS are inviting expressions of interest for a Grant Award to support infrastructure work directly connected with the reduction of reoffending and with the rehabilitation of adult offenders, or improving related outcomes that improve public protection, reduce the likelihood of harm to others or otherwise contribute to successful offender management and desistance. It covers work in custody and the community and applies to England and Wales. The scope of the grant is broadly as follows: a) Strategic and sustainable – The grant recipient should develop a new vision for the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSE) involved in reducing reoffending from 2015, following the creation of new supply chain relationships and stewardship for the sector in new contractual arrangements which go live from 2015, including such bodies as the Rehabilitation Forum, under Transforming Rehabilitation reforms providing sustainability for the sector. b) Supporting the sector including specialists – The grant recipient should maintain and develop an effective national infrastructure to meet current infrastructure needs by representing and assisting diverse VCSE organisations who work to reduce reoffending. This should include the grant recipient engaging with the emerging policies. Develop support needed to provide specialist work for groups with protected characteristics (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnics (BAME), female offenders, disability/age or other needs identified in commissioning). c) Specific Policy Work: Ministry of Justice – (MoJ) – Provide a reliable and representative interface with which the MoJ and other policy makers can engage when developing new proposals or reviewing existing policies, including in specialist areas. National Offender Management Services – (NOMS) – Provide a reliable and representative interface with which NOMS can engage when developing or reviewing strategy, innovation or operational practice, including in specialist areas. Promote the voice of the VCSE sector with key stakeholders within the MoJ and NOMS departments. Please find further details in the attached Scoping Document.