Justice Social Work Services: national throughcare guidance
Operational guidance intended to support Justice Social Work Practitioners across Prison Based and Community Based settings. It outlines best practice approaches for delivering effective throughcare throughout Scotland and sets out key policies, procedures and frameworks to inform everyday practice.
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Glossary of acronyms
CBSW Community Based Social Worker
CJP Community Justice Partnership
CJS Community Justice Scotland
CI Care Inspectorate
CMP Case Management Plan
DNA Did Not Attend
DSDAS Disclosure Scheme for Domestic Abuse Scotland
EDL Earliest Date of Liberation
FGTR First Grant of Temporary Release
FRAME Framework for Risk Assessment Management and Evaluation
GP General Practitioner
HMIPS His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland
HMP His Majesty’s Prison
HV Home Visit
ICM Integrated Case Management
ICMCC ICM Case Conference
JSW Justice Social Work(er)
JSWR Justice Social Work Report
LS/CMI Level of Service/Case Management Inventory
MAPPA Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements
N/A Not Applicable
NFA No Fixed Abode
NHS National Health Service
NTE National Top End
OLR Order for Lifelong Restriction
PBS Parole Board for Scotland
PBSW Prison Based Social Worker
PCMB Programmes Case Management Board
PQD Parole Qualifying Date
PR2 SPS Prisoner Records system
PVC Prison Visitors Centre
RAR Risk Assessment Report
RMA Risk Management Authority
RMP Risk Management Plan
RMT Risk Management Team
RoSH Risk of Serious Harm
SCRA Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration
SCTS Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service
SED Sentence End Date
SG Scottish Government
SOPU Sex Offender Policing Unit
SPS Scottish Prison Service
SRO Supervised Release Order
SSC Scottish Sentencing Council
STSO Short Term Sex Offender
SWS Social Work Scotland
TARL Throughcare Assessment for Release on Licence
UNCRC United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
WSA Whole Systems Approach
YOI Young Offenders Institution
Contact
Email: throughcare@gov.scot