Prison Throughcare & Aftercare

The Throughcare Team takes responsibility for working with prisoners to help them reintegrate into the community.

Area Covered
West Lothian

Key Client Groups
Ex-Offenders

Services Delivered
Meeting with offenders during their prison sentences.
Helping in the process of sentence-planning (considering what the offender hopes to achieve during the prison sentence to reduce the risk of offending on release).
Keeping contact with the people in the community where the prisoner hopes to live on release.
Preparing Parole Reports to help the Parole Board decide on the issue of early release.
Writing of other reports, for example to enable decisions on the granting of Home Leaves from prison or on the suitability of an address for an offender to be released on a Home Detention Curfew.
Supervising offenders on a range of Aftercare Licences, including Parole Licences.
Providing a Voluntary Aftercare Service for prisoners serving sentences where statutory supervision is not required; such prisoners will be offered an interview in prison, and the option of continuing contact after release.

Main Contact
Criminal Justice Social Work Service
West Lothian Council 

Web: www.westlothian.org.uk