Sex Offender Treatment Programme

(asked on 17th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners completed an individual-based sex offender treatment programme in each of the last three years.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 22nd January 2018

The information requested is set out in the table below.

We keep treatment programmes under constant review to reduce reoffending and protect the public. Over the past two years, we have introduced new programmes for sex offenders which draw on the latest international evidence on effective treatment for this cohort of offenders.

Table: Accredited Sexual Offending Programme Completions in Prison, England & Wales 2014/15 to 2016/17

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

All Sexual Offending Programmes

Total

947

1,144

r

1,171

Groupwork Progammes

Total

894

1,058

1,043

Adapted Better Lives Booster

32

-

-

Becoming New Me/Adapted Programme

85

113

136

Better Lives Booster

-

-

-

Core Programme

600

724

r

594

Extended Programme

141

183

r

128

Low Intensity/High Intensity Programme

21

-

-

New Me Coping

-

-

8

Living as New Me

15

38

r

30

New Me Strengths

-

-

21

Horizon

-

-

126

One-to-One Programmes

Total

53

86

128

Healthy Sexual Functioning(1)

51

86

r

-

Healthy Sex Programme(1)

2

-

128

r Small revisions have been made to the data as published in the 2015/16 Digest.

(1) The data for the Healthy Sex Programme and Healthy Sexual Functioning were transposed in the initial version of the 2016/17 Digest and have now been amended.

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