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New Leaf Trust - Working in Partnership

Approximately 250 high risk sex offenders are released into the community in Yorks and Humberside each year. From what is known about the effectiveness of Circles, the majority of these offenders, and the community in which they choose to live, would be very likely to benefit from involvement in a Circles project.

New Leaf Trust operates to the practice guidelines issued by Circles UK. Our staff are all experienced professionals from prisons, probation, police and psychology. Like other accredited Circles providers we adhere to MAPPA protocols and safeguarding procedures.

New Leaf Trust User Group

Our partnership working extends to having our own user group.

We have established the user group to monitor and observe our work.

The user group is consulted on both operational and development issues and is made up of representatives from safeguarding bodies, the police, other professionals and volunteers.

Becoming a Core Member

As part of the beginning of the process of our work with core members we review existing assessment and treatment material before considering, in negotiation with statutory agencies, whether to use structured professional judgement tools to further inform the shared assessment of risk of harm.

Our staff are trained to use the most accurate and sophisticated assessment tools. These include:

• RSVP - Risk of sexual violence protocol.
• SARA and B-Safer - Spousal assault risk assessment
• HCR-20 - Historical clinical risk management
• PCL-R - Psychopathy checklist revised
• SAM - Stalker assessment and management
• Thornton’s risk matrix 2000-2007.

In addition, our staff are familiar with VISOR, OASys and Assett.

All of our assessment material is shared with our partner organisations.