Measuring Progress

Introduction

As the offender plan is implemented, events, milestones and measurements are used to monitor the offender's progress, in addition to regular contact. This information may come from direct monitoring of the offender, or from others (e.g. police, members of the public, or the offender's family/whanau).

Reviews of the offender plan are the primary mechanism for measuring progress. They are to be undertaken:

• on a three-monthly basis, or
• when there is a significant change in an offender's circumstances (event-based review).

Reference: Volume 2, Part V, Chapter 4, Offender Plan Reviews. (please refer to the related links section on this page)

Measuring progress against the offender plan

The offender's progress should be measured against the requirements and objectives of the offender plan by:

• regularly reviewing the offender's safety and relapse prevention plans (where applicable)
• reassessing progress against the needs identified and activities scheduled in the offender plan
• observing the offender's progress and how they apply what they have learnt from the programmes
• undertaking regular reviews of the offender plan and event-driven reviews where required
• obtaining feedback from other support people or family/whanau
• obtaining information from other sources (e.g. police, members of the public)
• reviewing progress of interventions (where applicable) through feedback from the programme facilitator or provider
• reviewing programme workbooks (where applicable)
• discussing with CPPS staff managing any other sentence (where applicable), and
• discussing with the offender.

All offenders will be subject to a sentence completion report as part of the final offender plan review at the conclusion of their sentence.

Reference: Volume 2, Part V, Chapter 7, Sentence Completion Processes. (please refer to the related links section on this page)