West Lothian's Justice Teams and their Services

Senior Manager (Justice and Looked after Children)

Pauline Cochrane

• Senior management responsibility for some elements of children's services, and for Justice Services. Strategic responsibility for all Public Protection outcomes and objectives.

Group Manager (Justice Services) 

Gillian Oghene

• The Group Manager has overall responsibility for the delivery of our services on a day-to-day basis. She also co-operates with other Justice Service managers across Scotland on the planning, implementation and delivery of new national services through membership of the Social Work Scotland Justice Standing Committee.

Assessment and Early Intervention Team

Manager - John Young

The Team is responsible for:

• Provision of Court Social Work Service service at Livingston Court.
• Preparation of all Court Reports on people aged 21 and over who are awaiting sentence and who are not current users of CJ services.
• Bail Services - Bail Information and Bail Supervision
• Diversion from Prosecution Scheme

Community Payback Team

Managers - Richard Amos, Norma Paterson (Supervision) and Jacqueline Norris (Unpaid Work)

Supervision of all people aged 21 and over who are sentenced to:

• Community Payback Orders
• Probation Orders, either as a sentence in its own right or with additional conditions.
• Community Service Orders (including Unpaid Work as a condition of a Probation Order).
• Procurator Fiscal Work Offers.
• Running of offence-focused groupwork programmes.

Justice Throughcare Team

Manager - Amy Queen

The Team is responsible for:

• Liaison with prisoners, their families and the prisons prior to release
• Supervision of all prisoners released on Parole or Non-Parole Licences, Supervised Release Orders, Extended Sentences, Life Licences, and Orders of Life-long Restriction.
• Provision of Voluntary Throughcare to short-term prisoners..

Drug Treatment and Testing Order Team

Manager - John Young

The Team is responsible for:

• Pre-sentence assessment of offenders for their suitability for an intensive treatment programme
• Management of Drug Treatment and Testing Orders

Youth Justice Team

Manager - Kevin Carter

The Youth Justice Team works with young people who:

• are aged under 21 years;
• are assessed as being at medium to high risk of re-offending; and
• are subject to Children's Hearing Supervision Requirements or Community Payback Orders.

The Youth Justice team supports:

• voluntary engagement and work with young people at risk of harm to themselves or others.
• West Lothian's approach to Early and Effective Intervention (EEI).

HMP Addiewell Prison-based Social Work Team

Manager - Mary Graham (based at Addiewell Prison)

The Prison-based Social Work Team's main responsibilities are:

• Involvement in Integrated Case Management (ICM) system
• Risk-assessment of long-term prisoners
• Liaison with community-based Social Workers

High Risk Offenders

Lead Officer - Viv Murphy

Responsible for:

• administration of Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA), for sexual offenders.
• involvement in the management of high-risk behaviour through participation in:
  • Multi-Agency Partnership for Violent Offenders (MAPVO),
  • Multi-Agency Tasking and Co-ordination (MATAC), for perpetrators of domestic abuse.
  • Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences  (MARAC), which address the needs of victims of domestic abuse

Service Development- Community Justice/ EEI Lead

Fiona McKenzie

Responsible for:

• Planning and implementation of services, performance review and publicity.
• Developing strategy for rolling out of Community Justice arrangements in West Lothian.