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.


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

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