Criminal Justice System
Lucy Faithfull Foundation provides services to support the Police, National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the MAPPA in managing sexual offenders. It also works with the Youth Justice Board regarding young people in custody.
Adult male and female sexual offenders
The Ministry of Justice Public Protection Unit provides central grant funding for LFF to provide services to the National Offender Management Service (NOMS). There is no charge to individual probation areas.
Under this project LFF staff provide support to probation case managers. Expertise in working with high risk male sex offenders within the criminal justice system enables LFF to offer valuable assessment, intervention and case management advice.
In addition LFF staff who specialize in working with female sexual offenders provide a consultancy, assessment and intervention service.
Feedback from case managers who have used the service has been overwhelmingly positive in terms of the value of assistance with case management to reduce the risk of reoffending.
LFF also provides a separately funded consultancy service to individual prisons within the female estate.
For help with adult male offenders contact Simon Sauze on 01372 847163
For help with adult female offenders contact Sheila Brotherston on 01527 591922
Young people
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is funded by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) to provide an assessment and intervention service for young people aged between 15 and 18 years serving sentences of imprisonment for sexual offences within selected Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) within the juvenile secure estate. The service is available for up to 28 young people.
The service includes a comprehensive assessment of intervention needs which informs the development of an individual intervention plan. The service in the YOIs is supplemented where possible by work with the family of the young person and liasion with internal and external agencies with responsibility for the mangement of the young person in the YOI and after release.
As the service is resource limited, LFF work closely with the placement Unit within YJB to prioritise access to the service. The basic critieria used to prioritise places is that young person will have at least 12 months until release or 18th birthday and is not appealing against conviction. Priority is given to young people serving lengthy sentences of imprisonment.
Further information is availble from Sheila Brotherston at LFF on 01527 591922.