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NOMS has been restructured to join up prison and probation headquarters as part of the reorganisation of the Ministry of Justice. This website will remain live but will no longer be updated. Up to date information about NOMS can now be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

NOMS regions

Working in partnership

We are working together with a wide range of regional, sub-regional and local stakeholders to reduce re-offending and protect the public in London.

The Alliances

We want to work with partners in the community in Alliances, to ensure we obtain the best services for offender management. 

Within London we're currently developing the three Alliances as follows:

London Corporate Alliance

The Corporate Alliance in London is being taken forward by the Employer Engagement Group as part of the Offender Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) and the Education, Training and Employment Pathway. 

The Employer Engagement Group will make sure that there is coherence to the range of initiatives already underway in London.  For example:

  • London Probation is strengthening its links with employers to provide more work opportunities for offenders.  A new publication for employers has been issued to support the initiative.
  • London Probation is also leading work with the Greater London Assembly on the 'Second Chance Scheme' providing employment and opportunities for offenders to develop skills that will help them to find employment.

London Civic Alliance

The Civic Alliance is being demonstrated in a very practical way in London through resettlement pilots at Wormwood Scrubs and Holloway prisons. 

Eight London boroughs are involved with the Wormwood Scrubs project, and a further eight with that at Holloway.  The aim is to improve the coordination of services for those leaving custody through joint planning and preparation between the prison, probation and the local authority around the pilot cohort, and other relevant agencies, with a view to reducing re-offending.

This has led many of the boroughs to reflect upon service provision for those leaving prison more generally.  

London Faith, Voluntary and Community Sector Alliance

Work around the Faith and Voluntary and Community Sector Alliance in London is being taken forward in part through Partners in Reducing Re-offending (PiRR). 

PiRR is a cross-London project with the aim of developing effective partnerships to help voluntary and community sector organisations to deliver services to offenders. 

The project brings small and medium sized charities together into bid-making consortia to compete in the NOMS contestable market for service provision.  Groups have been formed around the seven reducing re-offending pathways (new window) and are designed to help charities share information about their activities and about government policy. 

For more information about PiRR, visit their website:  www.pirr.org.uk (new window)

PiRR and the Regional Offender Manager are working with Futurebuilders England on an initiative to build the capacity of small voluntary and community sector organisations to bid for work in the NOMS arena.  Futurebuilders is a government-backed fund for developing the capacity of the sector to deliver public services.  It offers a mixture of grants and loans, with loans forming a large proportion of the funding.

The London Resettlement Team, based in the Government Office for London, is exploring whether an intermediary body or consortium can be established to contract with community organisations.  The intermediary body would build the capacity of small faith community groups to deliver services to offenders and would support and monitor the performance of sub-contracted organisations so that they would be in a better position to be commissioned by NOMS.

Other partnerships

The Office of the Regional Offender Manager for London works closely with, amongst many others:

 

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