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This Policy Framework is intended for providers (from within HMPPS and externally) of rehabilitative interventions that address thinking, attitudes and behaviour and which are administered to people convicted of crimes, sometimes as part of their sentence. This policy framework provides mandatory instructions on how to apply (to the National Framework for Interventions (NFI) for approval of said interventions. It also provides the criteria against which said interventions are approved or not.

By providing clear guidance on how HMPPS headquarters will assess individual interventions, this policy framework seeks to make sure that all said rehabilitative interventions meet the necessary standards, are underpinned by the latest evidence and are fit for purpose.

The policy framework applies to interventions that are to be delivered in the Probation Service or in custody and it sets out how HMPPS headquarters will track what interventions across the country have been approved, how and when that approval should be reviewed, and it gives guidance for how interventions that fail to secure approval should be decommissioned.

This policy will be reviewed annually.

As a result of this policy framework, PSO 4350 no longer applies and, therefore, some service specifications are amended accordingly:

• Service Specification Rehabilitation Services in Custody P3.1 (publishing.service.gov.uk)
• Service Specification for Physical Education.