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Intensive Supervision & Surveillance Programme (ISSP)
ISSP was introduced by the YJB in
response to evidence suggesting that 3% of young offenders were
responsible for 25% of all youth crime.
Initially implemented as a pilot in limited number of YOT's around
the country, including Leeds, ISSP is now available to all YOT's
and is recognised as the most intensive and demanding sentence
available for young people.
ISSP is a mixture of punishment and positive opportunities
available 365 days per year. It can be made as a condition of
bail, a supervision order or a community rehabilitation order or
as the community portion of a custodial sentence. Each young
person on ISSP will have an individual timetable of activities
based on the factors identified by the asset assessment as being
significant in their offending. All timetables will also include
five core elements, these are:
- Education/training/employment
- Reparation
- Offence focussed
- Family support
- Interpersonal skills
ISSP normally runs for six months. The first three months will
be the high intensity period during which the timetable will
include 25 hours of activity spread over 7 days. The young
person will also be subject to a electronically monitored
curfew. During the low intensity phase there is a gradual
reduction in hours as the young person is prepared for the end
of ISSP.
Leeds ISSP is one of the largest in the country with more than
150 young people starting the programme in the last year.
It is
also one of the most successful with 64% of young people
completing the programme in 05/06.
Oxford University were
commissioned to complete an evaluation of ISSP nationally and
their findings indicated that while a high proportion of young
people do re-offend having completed ISSP they do so less
frequently and by committing less serious offences.
:: NEW ::
ISSP News - the Leeds ISSP Newsletter -
Click here for a PDF version of
the Summer 2006 Edition
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