Phases of the National Development Programme
The National Development Programme is a three-year initiative, through which Revolving Doors Agency aims to establish a national network of projects that meet the needs of and empower people caught in the cycle of crisis, crime and mental health problems to transform their lives.
The NDP is a development process designed specifically to contend with the challenges of working with the target group as outlined here. The process works at three levels:
Identification of needs
Demonstration of solutions
Shaping policy/commissioning
The process has been broken down into three stages, lasting approximately one year each:
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Phases of the National Development Programme
Phase 1:
Analysis
(April 07 to March 08 approximately)
In seven English regions and Wales, needs analyses were conducted in order to:
- establish the priorities of local service providers, statutory commissioners and potential beneficiaries;
- secure the active support of local statutory commissioners to take each project forward;
- map local service provision; and
- identify unmet needs of the client group and the appropriate point(s) in the system to respond to those needs (for example; Neighbourhood Policing; Courts; or Prison Resettlement).
Phase 2:
Pilot
(April 08 to Autumn 09)
From these needs analyses (and other needs assessments conducted outside the NDP) we are establishing 7/8 local pilot projects in England and one in Wales in order to:
- focus on the needs of a specific community or demographic (for example, a black or minority ethnic group; young people; a rural community), as established in the needs assessments; and
- work in partnership with service providers with knowledge of the local areas to operate the pilot projects.
Phase 3:
Learning, dissemination and mainstreaming
(Winter 08 to Summer 2010)
Apply the learning from the Assessment and Pilot Stages in order to:
- make the economic and social case for the mainstreaming of an on-going project in each region;
- disseminate the learning to local and national service policy makers, commissioners and providers
- attempt to secure 100% full cost recovery funding in each of the seven English regions and Wales.