GM Integrated Rehabilitation Services - Personal Wellbeing: The Person - Peer Support

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As part of Justice Devolution arrangements between Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), it has been agreed that HMPPS will devolve their national ‘Dynamic Commissioning Framework’ responsibilities for commissioning of services through to GMCA. The devolved approach for Greater Manchester is entitled ‘Greater Manchester Integrated Rehabilitative Services’ (GMIRS). This approach is designed to offer a less structured and more locally tailored interventions which will draw on the experience, innovation and skill within the private and voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors (VCSE), to provide effective rehabilitation and resettlement services that address criminogenic needs unmet by NPS through their programmes, Accredited Programmes, Unpaid Work and Structured Interventions. Lot 1: The Greater Manchester Integrated Rehabilitative Services Peer Support Service seeks to establish a service which enables either people with the same shared experience or individuals who can offer a positive pro-social vision – to support and develop opportunities for service users to divert them both away from the criminal justice system, and if required, into other support and rehabilitative services. The service is required to provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to individuals referred by an NPS Probation Practitioner. The service should have trained individuals who can develop plans to support people with specific or multiple needs to provide practical advice and guidance. This can take a number of forms such as mentoring, befriending, listening, counselling, advocating or being an advisor depending on the needs of the individual. However, it is also a service with compliance requirements and as such, plans will need to be shared with probation practitioners, including risk management