The Drug Treatment and Testing Order : early lessons : ninth report of session 2004-05 : report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence / Committee of Public Accounts.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts.
Date:
2005
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Credit: The Drug Treatment and Testing Order : early lessons : ninth report of session 2004-05 : report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence / Committee of Public Accounts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    placed great demands on people who often led chaotic lives, and inevitably some found it difficult to stay the course.” 5. Completion rates and early terminations due to good progress have varied significantly between probation areas (Figure 2), ranging between 8% in Kent to 71% in Dorset in 2003. Local completion rates reflected a variety of factors, including the type of offenders placed on the programme and different approaches adopted by local courts towards breach and revocation. The variations also reflected different approaches to treatment and rehabilitation. The National Offender Management Service reported that Dorset, for example, had tended to put people on the Order for six months - compared to twelve months in many areas — and had placed everyone on the Order in a hostel. The Service recognised the need to improve completion rates across the country by sharing good practice and it was looking at those areas with high completion rates to see what lessons could be learned. The Service suggested that activities provided alongside treatment, such as basic skills courses to make people more employable, would help to improve completion rates.° 5 Q3; C&AG's Report, para 3.3