Centres of Excellence Progress Report May 2006

1. Centres of Excellence Progress Report May 2006

2. Introduction & Background • The purpose of this presentation is to provide a status report on all actions, activities and interventions that have taken place to date in relation to establishing Centres of Excellence in all regions. • The Department has identified Correctional Centres across various Regions to serve as Centres of Excellence where an environment will be created for the provision of holistic integrated programmes and services to the offender in order to produce socially responsible individuals.

3. Introduction & Background • The Department intends to achieve, through a systematic process of piloting and translating the prescripts and ideals of the White Paper on Corrections, into sustainable practice in selected centres, that will be characterized by the: • Provision of holistic, integrated and needs-based services to offenders within needs-driven facilities aimed at producing socially responsible persons; • Effective management and control over all critical challenges that could have a significant impact on rehabilitation; • Presence of competent Rehabilitation- orientated personnel who are recruited, trained, retrained and developed in the "Ideal Correctional Official"; • Meaningful support for its overall Corrections-mandate from highly functional external partnerships with families, communities and society at large

4. Western Cape Malmesbury Medium A Correctional Centre Goodwood Correctional Centre Dwarsrivier Correctional Centre Drakenstein Medium B Juvenile Correctional Centre Pollsmoor Female Correctional Centre Voorberg Medium B Correctional Centre Approved Centres of Excellence Reminder

5. Eastern Cape Cradock Correctional Centre Idutywa Correctional Centre Stutterheim Correctional Centre East London Medium C Correctional Centre Kirkwood Correctional Centre Umtata Maximum Correctional Centre Queenstown Correctional Centre Approved Centres of Excellence Reminder

6. KwaZulu/ Natal Ebongweni Maximum Correctional Centre Kokstad Durban Juvenile Correctional Centre Durban Female Correctional Centre Pietermaritzburg Correctional Centre Ekuseni Youth Development Correctional Centre Empangeni Community Corrections Approved Centres of Excellence Reminder

7. Free State & NCape Groenpunt Juvenile Correctional Centre Goedemoed Medium A Correctional Centre Douglas Correctional Centre Sasolburg Correctional Centre Kroonstad Medium C Kuruman Correctional Centre Approved Centres of Excellence Reminder

8. Mpumalanga, Limpopo & Northern Cape Middelburg Correctional Centre Ermelo Correctional Centre Rustenburg Juvenile Correctional Centre Makhado Correctional Centre Klerksdorp Correctional Centre Modimolle Correctional Centre Approved Centres of Excellence Reminder

9. Gauteng Emthonjeni Juvenile Correctional Centre (Bavianspoort) Leeuwkop Juvenile Correctional Centre Johannesburg Medium Correctional Centre Johannesburg Female Correctional Centre Pretoria Central Correctional Centre Approved Centres of Excellence Reminder

10. Progress: Policies • Alignment of the Correctional Services Act No. 111 of 1998 with the White Paper on Corrections SA (2005) • Policies have been developed and aligned with the Principles of the White Paper. • Implementation plans have been developed for roll-out to regions

11. Progress: Documentation • Various documents, frameworks and tools have been drafted, approved and distributed for implementation in Centres of Excellence e.g. White Paper on Corrections; Brochures; Video; Checklist for compliance; Implementation plan; Integrated Project Plan; ORP document; A webpage for Centres of Excellence

12. Progress: Training on programmes • Orientation of all personnel in Centres of Excellence on Concept Document • Service Delivery Orientation for personnel (frontline training) • Change Management training sessions • Training of Heads of Correctional Centres by HRD on: • Communication • ORP (broad outline) • Training of Correctional Supervision and Parole Board members (52 CSPB established and trained) • Training / orientation sessions at 6 identified Centres of Excellence on the ORP. These centres will serve as blue print for the roll-out of the ORP to other Centres of Excellence in the regions

13. Progress: Training of staff • Correctional Intervention Teams (Relevant Section Heads) • Correctional programmes personnel • Educators • Skills Development practitioners • Psychologists • Social Workers • SRAC • Spiritual Care Workers • Health • HIV and AIDS • Workshop and Agriculture personnel • Social Reintegration • Head of Community Corrections • Head of Correctional Centre from all CoE in region + 3 other key personnel

14. Progress: Audit of facilities & Security • The installation of security equipment at access control points of 66 Correctional Centres (Centres of Excellence and other High Risk Correctional Centres) are in process to be finalized - Contract HQ 2/2005: Installation of security equipment at access points of Centres of Excellence, • Security fences with CCTV coverage and detection system that link up with a control room are also in the process to be finalized at Centres of Excellence.

15. Progress: Structures • Steering committees have been established on all organizational levels in order to oversee the implementation, manage and coordinate processes and also the facilitate adherence to and compliance with guiding documentation and procedures: • National (Chairperson: CDC Development and Care) • Regional (DRC) • Management Area (Area Commissioner)

16. Progress: Tools & Frameworks • Admission risk / needs assessment: • Conducted during Admission and within 24 hours after admission • Comprehensive Health Assessment & Comprehensive risk / needs Assessment • Conducted during Assessment phase within 21 days after admission • Offender Profiling • Framework to profile offenders based on assessment outcomes, risks and needs • Correctional Sentence Plan • Intervention plan for each offender based on his / her specific risks and needs

17. Progress: Structures • The Project Manager for Centres of Excellence has also been appointed and has assumed duty on 1 April 2006. • Correctional Supervision and Parole Board (CSPB) – all 52 were established and trained • Unit Management • Assessment teams

18. 2. Unit Management 3. Policies 1. Structures 4. ORP 10. Case file Matrixes 5.Tools 9. Resources 6. Programmes 8. Training 7. QA

19. Matrix: Structures for overseeing implementation CoE

20. Matrix: Unit Management

21. Matrix: Policies

22. Matrix: ORP

23. Matrix: Tools

24. Matrix: Programmes

25. Matrix: Quality Assurance

26. Matrix: Training

27. Matrix: Resources

28. Matrix: Case File - content

29. Way forward Finalization and approval of outstanding Policies & Procedures; Implementation of approved Policies and Procedures; Development of an Integrated Project Plan based on the Operational Plans of Branches for the 2006/07 financial year. Monitoring the implementation of the ORP in the Centres of Excellence; Finalization of Compulsory Programme Policy and piloting of programmes in Centres of Excellence; Development of an instrument / mechanism to measure the impact and effectiveness of all programmes and services;

30. Way forward • Development of an automated Quality Assurance system; • Development of measures to improve the working environment; • Further training of functionaries on: • Unit Management • ‘Ideal Correctional Official’ • ORP • Feedback on matrixes

31. Thank you Together we can… Build a caring correctional system that truly belongs to all