1. Presented by David Erfani Project Officer
Dealing with violent and aggressive behaviour
Birmingham Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme (ISSP) Scheme
October 2009
Presented by David Erfani Project Officer

2. Where am I from? I was born in Walsall in the West Midlands.
I currently live in Sutton Coldfield near Birmingham

3. My background Graduated in Forensic Psychology with honours
I work for the ISSP as a Project Officer
Co-ordinate the arts programme
Co-ordinate corporate communications for the team
I track and surveil the activities of young offenders allocated to the ISSP
I work to show young people positive and alternative lifestyles.
I help young people with many different issues and challenges they face, without institutionalising them to my support.
I previously worked within Birmingham Social Services and within Walsall Councils Homeless section
I am an Abstract visual artist
I also have sales experience
Which I hope helps me sell this presentation to you!

4. ISSP: What is it?
ISSP is the Youth Justice Board’s (YJB) National programme for prolific and serious young offenders
ISSP is a rigorous community based programme that offers the courts an alternative to custody
ISSP is currently delivered by 50 schemes covering 119 Youth Offending Teams (YOT) in the UK
ISSP combines:
Supervision; an intensive focus on addressing the causes of offending
Surveillance: robust surveillance designed to protect the community
Tracking Electronic monitoring (tagging and/or voice verification) Intelligence led policing

5. ISSP: What is it? It’s the most rigorous non-custodial
Intervention available for 10 to 17 year olds.
Young people are referred to the ISSP through
the courts.
Serious Offences i.e.; Robbery, Assault, fire arms, bladed article, or persistent offending
Most young people will spend 6 months on the ISSP.
The ISSP is included as a condition to run concurrently with court orders or as part of bail conditions.
Provide an effective alternative to short custodial sentences…. which will also help manage the custodial population.

6. Order with your local YOT months12 6
ISSP months
Tagging/ Curfew months 3
First half of the ISSP: structured supervision of at least 25 hours per week including time during evenings and weekends.
The second half the ISSP: structured supervision which maybe reduced in hours depending on progress made in the first 3 months. This will be up to the Programme Manager to decide.
After ISSP has been completed you will attend a meeting with a Youth Offending Team Officer to complete the remainder of your Order.

7. ISSP PROGRAMME Arts & Crafts Football Knife Crime Health & Fitness
RamDram
Jigsaw
Boys
Indoor
Group
See & Do
ISSP PROGRAMME
Education & Training
Restorative Justice
Interpersonal Skills
Family Work
Offending Behaviour
Multi Agency
PASE
Asian
Male
Group
Music
Black
Boys
Group
Consequential
Thinking
Robbery
Group
Expressions
Group
Prevention
of Violent
Extremism

8. Enforcement; Dealing with violations
Depending on
Seriousness of
Violation

9. Government lead agendas
Home office
Knife Crime Agenda
Youth Rehabilitation Order
Every Child Matters
Safeguarding
The Children’s act

10. De-escalating violent and aggressive behaviour
Risk assessment; taking into account individual circumstances.
Drug miss use
Family circumstances
Housing/ welfare
Gang issues
Risk to self and others
Society/ community factors
ISSP focuses upon preventing violent and aggressive behaviour by addressing;
How the environment/ situation facilitates behaviour
What ISSP do to de-escalate the behaviour
Developing relationships/ positive role models
Behaviour contracts
Rewarding positive behaviour and punishing negative behaviour

11. De-escalating violent and aggressive behaviour
Control: ‘The only person you have ultimate control of is yourself’. (EMPOWERMENT)
Task; in a difficult situation how to be conscious of
Behaviour escalators
How you can make negative behaviour worse
Behaviour de-escalators
How you can calm down the situation
There is one world and billions of people, the world doesn’t go around you, you go around the world. You need to figure out a way you can survive around billions of different people, to get through your life easier.

12. Anything I missed?
Questions?
Thank you for listening