This document’s aims and objectives are to:
- improve the information about housing and housing options available to offenders
- improve communication between the partner agencies
- improve awareness and understanding of the housing and related support needs of offenders amongst partner agency staff
- enable offenders to access appropriate accommodation and related support, both on release from custody, and whilst serving non-custodial Community and Suspended Sentence Orders
- require that close linkage and collaboration is made between relevant agencies e.g. the partner agencies to this document
- enable a greater chance of preventing and thereby reducing re-offending within our communities, and enhancing public safety, by adopting the co-ordinated approach to improving access to settled accommodation for this client group outlined in this pathway. At the same time the pathway importantly enables accommodation expectations to be realistically managed