The Offender Management Conference 2025: Reducing Reoffending and Promoting Rehabilitation

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Overview:

With a deepening prison overcrowding crisis in prisons and rising demands on probation services, the UK faces a defining moment for criminal justice reform. Reoffending remains one of its most persistent and costly challenges, undermining public safety and resources. The need for effective, evidence-based offender management programmes that centre rehabilitation has never been more urgent.

• Adults released from custodial sentences of less than 12 months had a 56.9% reoffending rate (MoJ, 2025)
• The adult prison population, estimated to be over 87,000 as of April 2025,
  currently exceeds the capacity of the system (Independent Sentencing Review, 2025)
• As of September 2024 there were over 240,000 offenders under probation supervision (MoJ, 2025)

Join us at the Offender Management Conference 2025 to explore the latest policy updates, and practical strategies to reduce reoffending and strengthen offender management. Hear from expert speakers across the criminal justice, voluntary, health, and education sectors, and engage in case studies on key challenges including

Agenda

• 9.30am

  Registration

• 9.50am

  Chair’s Opening Remarks

  Professor Mike Nellis, Emeritus Professor Law, University of Strathclyde (CONFIRMED)

  

• 10.00am

  Keynote: Responding to Crisis

  • Outlining the probation reform and prison expansion strategy and the impact this will have on offender management
  • Outlining key findings of the 2025 Independent Sentencing Review and its implications for criminal justice reform
  • Understanding how effective offender management will contribute to the government’s safer streets mission
  • Examining the role of probation in delivering effective sentencing through supervision, community orders, and cross-sector collaboration

  Andrew Neilson, Director of Campaigns, Howard League for Penal Reform (CONFIRMED)

  

• 10.20am

  Keynote: A Whole-System Approach to Reducing Crime Through Integrated Offender Management (IOM)

  • Exploring how Integrated Offender Management (IOM) brings together police, probation, and partner agencies to manage offenders
  • Complex issues in high-harm offender cohorts and how locally tailored interventions can respond to drivers of crime and reoffending
  • Partnership plans in Suffolk

  Tim Passmore, Suffolk Police and Crime Commissioner (CONFIRMED)

  

• 10:40

  Keynote: Improving Community Safety Through Probation Services

  • Strategies to strengthen multi-agency collaboration between probation, police, housing, health, and voluntary services to address the root causes of offending and promote rehabilitation
  • Implementing probation services that are responsive to offenders’ diverse risks and needs, incorporating trauma-informed practices to improve engagement and reduce reoffending
  • Encouraging seamless transitions for individuals leaving custody by aligning prison-based programmes with community probation services
  • Examining the impact of expanding the use of digital tagging, earned progression schemes, and structured supervision models to monitor offenders and target high-risk offenders more effectively

  Dave argument, Independent Office for Police Conduct (CONFIRMED)

• 11:00am

  Questions and Answers

• 11.20am

  Comfort Break

• 11.35am

  Case Study: Providing Effective Offender Management Programmes within Prison

  • Exploring how trauma-informed and relationship-based practices can improve engagement and outcomes for men in custody
  • Providing emotional and practical support for men with complex needs, including those on indeterminate sentences
  • Understanding the importance of multi-agency coordination in managing licence recalls, transfers, and release planning

  Safiyya Hussein, Head of Service, Offender Management Unit, Catch 22 (CONFIRMED)

  

• 11:55am

  Case Study: Providing Effective Intervention Services to Young Men 

  • In Your Corner (IYC) is a trauma-informed, identity-focused criminal justice intervention designed to engage men through prosocial, community-based support and trusted relationships
  • Explore how IYC aligns with IOM principles, supporting desistance, improving engagement, and enhancing partnership responses to individuals who face multiple barriers to change
  • Discover how prosocial community activities, relational practice, and masculinity-informed approaches are helping to build trust and reduce reoffending

  Myka Wilshire, Hypermasculinity project manager, Change Grow Live (CONFIRMED)

  

• 12:15am

  Questions & Answers

• 12:35pm

  Lunch Break

• 13:15

  Breakout Networking: Working Collaboratively to Improve Outcomes for Offenders

  This session will provide you with the opportunity to explore the key challenges you face in delivering consistent, effective support and rehabilitation pathways for offenders. Hear more about shared barriers, discuss how colleagues across the criminal justice system are trialling new approaches, and identify collaborative solutions that can strengthen outcomes and reduce reoffending.

• 13.40pm

  Keynote: Utilising Restorative Justice Practices to Improve Outcomes for both Offenders and Victims

  • Providing effective restorative practice training that focuses on managing conflicts proactively and promoting positive relationships
  • Promoting restorative practices across departments to encourage a cohesive approach
  • Strategies for building a rehabilitative culture in custody rooted in accountability and relationship repair
  • Exploring victim-offender mediation as a tool for meaningful reparation and reduced reoffending

  Chloe Ives, Senior Restorative Justice Practitioner (CONFIRMED)

• 14.10pm

  Case Study: Unlocking Potential through Coaching: Transforming Young Lives in Prison 

  • How Spark Inside’s Hero’s Journey programme uses professional life coaching to support young people in prison to unlock their potential.
  • Understand how coaching supports wellbeing, resilience, decision-making, and empathy to make rehabilitation possible
  • Explore how coaching-based approaches can foster positive culture and relationships between people living and working in prisons.

  Tom Currie, Head of Impact and Innovation, Spark Inside (CONFIRMED)

  

• 14.30pm

  Questions and Answers

• 14.50pm

  Comfort Break

• 15.05pm

  Case Study: Providing Effective Education Programmes in Custody

  • Designing individual learning plans that address literacy, numeracy, digital skills, and employment readiness in custody
  • Embedding vocational training and accredited qualifications that align with job market needs and post-release job opportunities
  • Creating strong links between prison education and community-based providers to ensure learning continues after release
  • Measuring impact through engagement, attainment, and reduced reoffending

  Jon Collins, Chief Executive, Prisoners’ Education Trust (CONFIRMED)

  

• 15:25pm

  Case Study: Integrated Offender Management- A partnership approach to reducing reoffending and supporting rehabilitation

  • Focus on persistent offenders. How the IOM approach seeks to stop the revolving door and increase neighbourhood safety
  • The 7 pathways that underpin the IOM approach. How West Midlands is working with Partners
  • What’s the evidence that IOM works?

  Marj Rogers, Integrated Offender Management Strategic Lead, HMPPS (CONFIRMED)

  

• 15.45pm

  Questions and Answers

• 16.05pm

  Chair’s Closing Remarks

  Professor Mike Nellis, Emeritus Professor Law, University of Strathclyde (CONFIRMED)

  

• 16.15pm

  Conference Close

Get in Touch

Speakers

Dave argument

Head of Probation Inspection Programme

HM Inspectorate of Probation

Tim Passmore

Tim Passmore, Suffolk Police and Crime Commissioner

Professor Mike Nellis

Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice

University Of Strathclyde

Safiyya Hussein

Head of Service

Offender Management Unit

Myka Wilshire

Hypermasculinity project manager

Change Grow Live

Chloe Ives

Senior Restorative Justice Practitioner

London Borough of Newham

Jon Collins

Chief Executive

Prisoners’ Education Trust

Steve Freer

CEO

Tempus Novo

Testimonials

Why You Should Attend

Why Attend:
✓High-level keynotes from leading policymakers and practitioners improving offender management programmes and outcomes

✓Hear the latest national updates and evidence-based approaches to tackling reoffending and ensuring rehabilitation
✓ Gain practical tools and strategies to embed trauma-inform practices that consider the complex needs of offenders
✓Networking opportunities with speakers and senior colleagues across the criminal justice sector
✓8 hours of CPD points towards your yearly quota

Who Should Attend?

Pricing Options

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Virtual vs F2F

Whilst F2F provide better options for networking, there are many distinct advantages of sponsoring our online conferences including:

• Wider geographical reach of delegates and a different audience who prefer online to f2f
• Lower sponsorship package costs
• No travel/accommodation
• Less time out of the office
• No stand materials required (lower costs)
• 1 of only 2 sponsors involved – less competition on the day
• Prime speaking slot in the morning of the conference including Q&A – less distractions and easier for delegates to hear/absorb information
• Receive all delegate data after the conference to follow-up directly with those who attend and don’t attend (small % but still key stakeholders)
• Ongoing exposure via OnDemand access (coming soon)

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