The existing Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programmes (ISSPs) target repeat offenders in the 10 to 17-year-old group. A 9m pilot of the Intensive Control and Change Programme (ICCP) will extend similar methods to older non-violent or non-sexual offenders.
The scheme is to be piloted this month in London, Nottinghamshire, Northumbria, Humberside and West Yorkshire. A further six areas, Hampshire, Lincolnshire, West Mercia, Cambridgeshire, Lancashire and South Wales will join in October.
As well as close monitoring by the probation service and the police, the scheme will aim to rehabilitate offenders with 25 hours of intensive education and employment a week, delivered in partnership with local agencies such as Connexions and Jobcentre Plus. Offenders will also take part in unpaid community work, engage with a mentor and, under a compensation order, pay victims for injury, loss or damage where appropriate. The Home Office is promising a rapid response in cases where offenders break any of the conditions of the orders.
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