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It outlines how agencies work in partnership to assess and manage risks posed by specified sexual and violent offenders, while preserving each agency’s statutory responsibilities. The guidance sets expectations for equal access, diversity-sensitive risk and needs assessments, roles of the Responsible Authority and Duty to co-operate agencies, governance via the Strategic Management Board, and the operational process including identification, notification, management levels, and information storage in ViSOR.","MAPPA Guidance\nUpdated Apr 2024\nProduced by the National MAPPA Team\nHM Prison and Probation Services\nPublic Protection Group\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\n1. Introduction\nMAPPA: a basic guide\nThis is a summary of MAPPA: please see the relevant chapters for details.\n1.1\tThe Criminal Justice Act 2003 (“CJA 2003”) provides for the establishment of Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (“MAPPA”) in each of the 42 criminal justice areas in England and Wales. These are designed to protect the public, including previous victims of crime, from serious harm by sexual and violent offenders. They require the local criminal justice agencies and other bodies dealing with offenders to work together in partnership in dealing with these offenders.\n1.2\tThis Guidance on MAPPA has been issued by the Secretary of State for Justice under the CJA 2003 in order to help the relevant agencies in dealing with MAPPA offenders. These agencies are required to have regard to the Guidance (so they need to demonstrate and record their reasons if they depart from it).\n1.3\tMAPPA is not a statutory body in itself but is a mechanism through which agencies can better discharge their statutory responsibilities and protect the public in a co-ordinated manner. Agencies at all times retain their full statutory responsibilities and obligations. They need to ensure that these are not compromised by MAPPA. In particular, no agency should feel pressured to agree to a course of action which they consider is in conflict with their statutory obligations and wider responsibility for public protection.\n1.4\tThe MAPPA agencies must be free from discrimination and committed to equal access to services for all groups, particularly in relation to race, gender, gender identity, age, religious belief, sexuality, sexual orientation and disability. This means that all actions undertaken or recommended by the MAPPA agencies, and all policies and procedures, will be based on assessments of risks and needs. They will not draw on stereotypical assumptions about groups that will be discriminatory in outcome.\n1.5\tIn undertaking their work, the MAPPA agencies will be sensitive and responsive to individual differences and needs. They will integrate this understanding into the delivery of their functions to ensure that nobody is disadvantaged as a result of belonging to a specific social group. To assist in achieving this, each Responsible Authority must have plans in place and implemented to ensure that issues of diversity are addressed.\n1.6\tThe operation of MAPPA relies on component bodies working through an agreed process with MAPPA offenders, making provision as needed for particular groups, subject to regulation and review. These elements are briefly explored below and are developed in detail in the body of the guidance, in the chapters shown.\nComponent bodies\nResponsible Authority\n1.7\tThe Responsible Authority is the primary agency for MAPPA. This is the police, prison and Probation Service in each area, working together. The Responsible Authority has a duty to ensure that the risks posed by specified sexual and violent offenders are assessed and managed appropriately.\nDuty to co-operate agencies\n1.8\tOther bodies have a duty to co-operate with the Responsible Authority in this task. These duty to co-operate agencies (“DTC agencies”) will need to work with the Responsible Authority on particular aspects of an offender’s life (e.g. education, employment, housing, social care). The UK Border Agency became a DTC agency in 2011 – the first addition to the list since the scheme in the CJA 2003 was implemented.\nStrategic Management Board\n1.9\tThe supervision of this work is carried out by the Strategic Management Board (“SMB”) in each area. 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