DRAFT Terms of Reference for the

West MidlandsCriminal Justice, Health and Social Care Strategic Board

V3 June 2011

Summary:

A strategic regional board of senior staff supporting multi agency improvements in the commissioning of services for offenders and management of risk across the region.

Vision

The Boards aims in the West Midlands’ aim is to ensure patients have equitable access to same standard of servicesas they would receive if they were living in the community. Made possible through:

  • Providing strategic oversight and leadership
  • Developing strategic partnerships
  • Encouraging and supporting local innovation and reform
  • Informing and supporting national policy and practice
  • Ensuring that patients and communities across the West Midlands get the full benefits of investment and reform as quickly aspossible.

The Board recognise that offenders are a vulnerable group.

Aim of the Board

This board will provide strategic leadership (through transition) to support service improvement and risk reduction in the commissioning of Criminal Justice, Health and Social Care services for offenders in the West Midlands.

Propsed Core Board Membership – as below or named deputies:

  • NHS West Midlands, Medical Director, Programme DIretcor Offender Health Transition, Performance Lead,
  • Staffordshire Cluster, Medical Director
  • NOMS, Director of Offender Management, Regional Manager Commissioning & Regional Manager Prisons
  • Police, Assistant Chief Constablesfrom Staffordshire (CJ) and West Midlands (MH)
  • Department of Health WM, Deputy Regional Director for Social Care and Partnerships
  • WM Probation area Chief Executive
  • NTA Regional Manager

Board Responsibilities

The board will have ownership of, and responsibility for setting the strategic direction for, the delivery of Health & Social Care in Criminal Justice in the West Midlands.

The board will:

  • Agree and sign-off delivery of regional priorities
  • Develop robust indicators to monitor and evaluate performance
  • Advise responsible commissionersabout business priorities through regional and local operational partnerships
  • Address and resolve issues arising from disputes or barriers to delivery across agencies at a regional or local level
  • Escalate issues requiring national resolution to the DH/MOJ Criminal Justice Health Board

The remit of the board will be to advise at a strategic level within the region, aiming to ensure a joined up approach across the different agency priorities.
Business delivery will be driven and managed on a day-to-day basis through task and finish groups and partnerships which may/may not be accountable to the board. (?)

Meetings will be arranged quartley, and will last no longer than 2 hours. Meetings will be held in Birmingham.

Members of the board also report to their own organisations and other networks.

This board forms part of the transition arrangements for the management of Offender Health on behalf of the NHS, NOMS and Social Care in the West Midlands. This board may include discussion and liaison on drugs and alcohol, but is not the regional governance system for improvement in these areas.

Draft Priorities 2011 - 12

  • Future Commissioning of Offender Health
  • Primary Care services to Probation Hostels
  • Prison Health Transfer programe
  • Integrated Offender Management

Figure 1: Illustrated governance structure

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