1. NOMS Co-Financing Organisation Social Enterprise Programme
The past, the present
and the future

2. Introduction
NOMS Co-financing Organisation and the European Social Fund (ESF) have committed a total of £280m of funding over 6 years (Jan 2009 – December 2014) to prepare and support over 120,000 offenders, in the community and in custody, to access mainstream employment services and ultimately gain employment.
The ultimate intention of the NOMS/ESF Co-financing programme is to reduce the rate of reoffending
The funding provides a range of education and employment activities which complement existing provision currently available in prisons and probation as well as mainstream employment programmes such as those delivered through Jobcentre Plus, the Work Programme and the Offender Learning and Skills Service (OLASS).
Offenders on release from prison, including short sentence prisoners are provided with support to help them secure employment.
We are the NOMS Co-financing Organisation like DWP and SFA as the large ones and Luton Borough Council and East of England Development Agency as one of the smaller ones
Employment Training and Education assistance is in addition to what is already being provided in prison in prison and the community and is for the harder to reach individuals and groups with additional disadvantage in the employment environment
70% in the community and 30% in custody
Dedicated team that works with 16 to 18 year olds

3. Funding Structure
NOMS CFO presently contracts to 9 Prime Providers to deliver our services to offenders.
During the life of the programme these Prime Providers have included private, public and charitable organisations including Serco, SOVA and Probation Trusts.
They cover 12 specific area in England. Using a system of sub-contracting and spot purchasing.
Our Prime Providers have worked with over 120 Tier 3 organisations. These 120+ organisations include a large number of VCSE suppliers.
We have successfully worked with a “Payments by Results” model since the project began in 2009.
We administer the European funds and have let and manage the contact for the 12 Prime provider Areas where we have a mixture of private companies Line SERCO, Working Links, TRIBAL AS Prime providers alongside some current probation Trust such as Merseyside, and Leicestershire and Rutland as also Prime s

4. Unqualified, unskilled
NOMS CFO Target Group
DWP…
Skilled, qualified but unemployed
Unqualified, unskilled
and unemployed
SFA…
Unskilled, unqualified, de-motivated, drugs / alcohol issues, behavioural issues, debt problems, accommodation problems.
NOMS CFO
Hard to help group who are currently not able to access mainstream provision, and are therefore unable to return to the labour market

5. Social Enterprise Arena
NOMS CFO and the
Social Enterprise Arena
NOMS first began using European money to develop engagement with the social enterprise (SE) sector in 2008 and in April 2009, as the Co-financing Organisation was formed, appointed its first Social Enterprise ‘Champion’ and latterly the Social Enterprise Team, who act as a conduit between the SE sector and NOMS CFO.
We have also worked with the sector when dealing with mainstream NOMS colleagues via our Social Enterprise Policy Group
Social Enterprise activity was funded via the Technical Assistance (TA) stream of European funding and was specifically for development and testing of new ways of interacting with offenders to reduce re-offending.
TA funding has also supported other engagement activity targeted at offenders specifically with regards to sustainable development and cross-cutting themes.
The SE programme is part of what we do and has become increasingly important with the new designs of TTG services and the TR programme which we will discuss later?
The Government has put a large emphasis on Local community organisations taking a greatr role in solving the rehabilitation and reoffending issues within the Justice system
Why SE ,this was a political push from both the previous government and the current one to look at the new entity of se’s as a possible way to support better social and societal outcomes for those most disadvantaged.
In 2005 BIS developed the concept of CIC for social enterprises
The CFO felt se were unique in that they had not previously had significant funding to develop and thus needed it and were in a position to support the rehabilitation / re-offending regime
Business cases new, delivery models innovative ways of SE interaction with offenders re ETE and employability
Promotion of SE to create a more vibrant market place for the CJS and wider applications such as health and the environment
Learning re specific regional differences identifying areas that have particular and specific issues

6. NOMS CFO & ESF Social Enterprise Activity
3 Broad strands of social enterprise activity:
Action Research – an extensive programme of pilot projects which explored new delivery methodologies and sustainable funding models
Infrastructure Development – work with sector bodies and others to create and promote a vibrant and diverse market place including specific Sustainable Development avenues
Regional and Pathway Investment – specific budgets for SE Investment Zones in the targeted areas in England and other activity focused on housing, diversity and other resettlement pathways
Explain Action research
Explain Infrastructure Development
Explain Region and Pathway investment
So lets look at the strands in more depth

7. Action Research To date we have funded:
Beyond Youth- business case
Women’s Wisdom-competition
Work this Way-competition
Ubique – business case
a Prisoner – business case
Framework Housing -competition
To date we have funded:
29 individual projects to explore new delivery methodologies and sustainable funding models.
Organisation we have worked with and funded include:
Competition Route: full scale commissioning competition which saw over 80 organisations submit proposals under 2 distinct criteria.
Working with Community Payback offenders in the community and proposals which has a distinctive “green” ethos and which showed clear sustainable development benefits whilst up skilling offenders.
Through the network of social enterprises and the Regional engagement conducted many emerging social enterprises posed interesting business plans that where evaluated by the submissions board.
Also ensure that no two SE’ s were similar in nature to maximise the opportunities for innovation in NOMS CFO
Each business case although not delivery based had a training education or employment avenue in the case
Spread the benefit to the area / communities that gave birth to the ideas
Aims to enthuse the SE / CJS market, power greater market Diversity, push boundaries for benchmarking and innovation in rehabilitation and source alternative practical and academic methods for solving some re-offending issues
Beyond Youth Behavioural Change program for adults hoping to get them job ready and supply them with Jobs. Franchise Model to be replicated across the service.
Won the Big Venture Challenge and lottery winner, have demonstrated franchise capability and replication now a very successful se that has teamed with other se’s to provide a better holistic package for offenders providing behavioural change , housing and employment as well as gang desistance
Women's wisdom another award winning SE that won the CP competition and provides supervision for CP Women in a segregated environment, Supplying training and employment opportunities for women who may not have been economically active due and providing an invaluable service for the local VCES community in administrative resource which would normally have bee to expensive for thee business
Work this way an award winning eco waste management service for offenders. Providing viable waste management skills for offenders and re- channelling the waste to renewable energy at the Bardon waste management site
Ubique were a mutual spinout from Warwickshire probation Trust who developed a innovative ETE programme that was due to be cancelled by the Trust. They now provide the service with a 300% increase in product delivery over the same period
a Prisoner _ supplied enhanced technology to this small organisation which enabled it to expand its operating base to include more prisons and increase capacity
Framework Housing – funded the training and upskilling of offenders within a panting and decorating workshop. Practical skills were then used to bid for contracts from local authorities to refurbish accommodation for vulnerable adults

8. Infrastructure Development
Supported Social Enterprise CJS development across England in developing a regional engagement programme across the UK
Enthuse the SE market to continue to work with NOMS CFO and develop further avenues for procurement opportunities
Enabling a greater visibility for NOMS CFO and NOMS mainstream in the Social Enterprise market
Listened to SE’s who wanted greater opportunities to engage with CJS and NOMS, other than the traditional spot purchase or sub provider avenue
Consortia avenue explored by NOMS CFO to try and address these requests by the market and facilitate greater market development for essential rehabilitation services. Culminating in the Social Enterprise Consortia Building exercise.
Support filtered to many SE network organisations across the regions. Some have since diminished in their activities whilst still coming under a greater umbrella
SFUK and SEUK Along with SEEE and SEWM are helping to drive the agenda forward. And Now 3SC have joined them in this endeavour. Leading the Market stewardship and development with their consortia partners
Will explore the Social Enterprise consortia exercise in more detail later

9. Regional and Pathway development
Areas within England are provided with additional Social Enterprise support. These are South West and Cornwall
This funding totals approximately £0.5M of additional support which was specifically to work with Social Enterprises in these areas.
There has also been additional action funding to highlight social enterprise activity in the North West and Yorkshire & Humberside.
Activity in these areas include:
Green Future Building: Fish farms, BMX track for able and disabled, Floating Café
Carlshead Farm: Horticultural qualification
Leeds Market Garden: Production of 10,000 plants for sale to councils and general public

10. Social Enterprise Consortia Building Programme
NOMS CFO
Social Enterprise Consortia Building Programme

11. Social Enterprise Consortia Building Programme
As the NOMS CFO SE programme developed and following consultation with the social enterprise sector it became clear that the sector felt disadvantaged when bidding for Government contracts because of:
The size of the Government contracts on offer
The size of the typical social enterprise organisations (SME’s)
Because of this perceived impasse the Consortia Building Programme was developed.
£1.5m to develop robust, self-sustaining consortia capable of delivering Prime, Tier 2 or Tier 3 contracts for public and private contracts within the CJS and outside.
This was to be accomplished by the provision of specific training and support mechanisms which would assist the organisations to form legal consortiums which would increase the supply chain for Government and private procurement exercises.

12. Social Enterprise Consortia Building Programme
Benefits for NOMS CFO/ SE’s of the Consortia Building Programme
Increase number of potential ‘primes’ in market, with particular focus on consortia structures which are not grant dependent
Improve the ability of the SE sector to participate in current and future delivery of ESF programmes
Increase SE presence within market/supply chains for a) NOMS CFO; b) other CFOs; c) services supporting employability support for offenders; and d) employability support programmes across Government departments
Develop value or supply chains that also create environmental and social benefit beyond that experienced by the participants themselves
Incorporating social value culture into the governments delivery chain.

13. Social Enterprise Consortia Building Programme
Benefits for NOMS CFO/ SE’s of the Consortia Building Programme cont..
Enable SME SE’s to participate in Government procurement rounds above £100k lot value by becoming part of substantive consortium able to meet the prime provider thresholds or alternatively as significant sub-contractors
Increase skill set of SE’s by facilitating consortia combining managerial and administrative expertise, understanding of support mechanisms for client group, ability to market offer, commercial acumen and experience of compliance with ESF requirements
Support SE’s in articulation of wider social value of offer to public sector commissioners
Test how enterprises and other organisations can work together to create a ‘value’ or ’supply chain’ that can offer offenders the opportunity to gain skills and employment (supported by other multi-pathway interventions)

14. The Successful Bidders
Social Enterprise Consortia Building Programme
The Successful Bidders

15. NOMS CFO Round 3

16. NOMS CFO Round 3 2015-2020 Funding for Round 3 has been confirmed as
£131m for a 6 year offender assistance programme
As part of the ESF programme NOMS CFO R3 will commence in 2015
Procurement will commence mid 2014… details TBC
CFO contracts will be regional, within ESF constraints, but will be managed at a national level

17. NOMS CFO Round
Will continue to work with offenders both in prison and upon release into the community
Will ensure that it will provide delivery into prisons which will best complement the aims of The Rehabilitation Programme
Work with offenders in the last months of their sentence … although we can work with offenders up to 3 years before their sentence ends

18. NOMS CFO Round
Continue to target those furthest away from mainstream activity and the employment market
Focus on offender with multiple barriers and extremely hard to reach groups e.g. offenders with disabilities, over 50’s, BME groups and women
Activity in R3 will be widened to include health, training and work that strengthens appropriate family links which will be in conjunction with the DWP Troubled Families provision

19. NOMS CFO Round
Payment will continue to be via a “Payment by Results” process which has been working successfully for NOMS CFO and its Prime Providers since 2009

20. Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs)
NOMS CFO Round
Consultation processes are under way and we are currently engaging with:
Prisons
Probation Trusts
Other CFO’s
The Rehabilitation Team at NOMS
Ministry of Justice
Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs)
ESF are clear that a strong relationship with the 39 LEP’s will be important and NOMS CFO will implement a process allowing regular liaison at local level to ensure that work is complementary to their delivery for offenders.

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