NOMS- Reducing Reoffending - Tender to improve disproportionality in use of force incidents for black and/or Muslim prisoners in custody through self development -Grant Funding 2015/16

Tender description

Description Overview: NOMS are inviting expressions of interest for a Grant Award to support an organisation with work in relation to the use of force used on Black and Muslim prisoners within custody. NOMS data shows that both groups are disproportionately high within this area. The scope of the grant is broadly as follows: 1. NOMS commissioning intentions include provision to commission services which will “enhance public protection and ensure a safe, decent environment and rehabilitative culture”. The aim of this grant is to test a self development intervention to identify the reasons why Black and Muslim prisoners are involved disproportionately in incidents which result in use of force and how this can be reduced. 2. The funding seeks to enable the following outcomes: a) To understand the reasons why Black and Muslim prisoners are more involved in use of force incidents, through a self development intervention. b) To work with individuals to identify the causes, reduce their involvement in these incidents and improve behaviour whilst in custody looking at a prisoner’s experience within custody and whether how they feel perceptions or pressures associated with their protected characteristics may have affected them and influenced their behaviour. c) To produce a “Commissioning Resource Pack” which enables best practice where identified and how this can be replicated, through data gathered during the lifetime of the grant. d) To test the self development intervention within 3 prisons nationally, as agreed between the provider and NOMS, one working with Black prisoners, one working with Muslim prisoners and one working with a mixed group of Black and Muslim prisoners. e) To use qualitative research throughout the grant to evaluate the effects on behaviour of the self development intervention, including tracking prisoners during and after the intervention. f) To measure whether the intervention has led to a reduction in disproportionality for Black and Muslim prisoners involved in use of force incidents, before and after the intervention, as evidenced on the NOMS Equality Monitoring Tool. Please find further details in the attached Scoping Document.