Profile Provision for Armed Forces Veterans under Probation Supervision

Summary: This report builds on the Phillips Review into ex-armed forces personnel in the criminal justice system. Funded by the Forces in Mind Trust and commissioned by the Probation Institute, this report sets out to profile and analyse the current state of services for veterans under probation supervision in England and Wales. It is intended to inform an emerging national network of support, organised by the Probation Institute, thereby bringing tangible benefits to all public, private, and voluntary sector agencies that seek to rehabilitate and reintegrate people who have served their country in the armed forces. The Probation Institute Network is composed of people from probation and from the charities and other agencies, all of whom have a common interest in developing services for veterans. The key messages are to members of the Network. Hence our findings should be generally comprehensible but we have assumed some specialist knowledge. At its heart, our project was intended to be an analysis of how services were developing to meet known needs and how outcomes were being monitored within an evolving evidence base. The original topics for the profiling can be set out briefly under a number of headings: current provision, funding of current provision, provision in relation to known needs, service impact monitoring, availability of services and barriers to access, co-production of services in conjunction with service users, consideration of other factors (such as being a victim as well as an offender), guidance and training and evidence and effective practice