Prison Dialogue

Threshold Dialogue Bournemouth

What is the Bournemouth Threshold Dialogue?

The Bournemouth Threshold Dialogue, which was initiated in 2007, is a ground-breaking multi-agency venture. Its significance is that it has the potential to provide real end-to-end offender management for all offenders from one town. This enables attention to be given to particular target groups, such as high repeat offenders who are not on the PPO register and hence below the radar of most interventions. Once it is fully operational, it will engage every prisoner who is released into Bournemouth from HMP Dorchester and HMP Guys Marsh (the two main release prisons for the city). Read more »»

Partner Agencies

The following agencies are currently directly involved in the Bournemouth Threshold Dialogue.

Dorset Police – Bournemouth and Poole Division
Bournemouth Borough Council – Safer and Stronger Communities
HMP Dorchester
HMP Guys Marsh
HMYOI Portland
Dorset Probation Service
HM Courts Service
Crime Reduction Initiative – Dorset
Bournemouth Churches Housing Association
Prison Dialogue

This list is likely to expand as the intervention matures.

Governance Board

Gary Smith, Dorset Police
Andy Williams, Team Manager – Safer and Stronger Community, Bournemouth Borough Council
Governor - HMP Dorchester
Governor – HMP Guys Marsh
Tina Ridge, Head of Adult Services – Dorset Probation Service
Steve Holland, Governor – HMYOI Portland
Jayne Robertson, Chair of Operations Group, Bournemouth Borough Council
Peter Garrett, Director – Prison Dialogue

Operations Group

Neil Claughton, Detective Inspector – Bournemouth and Poole Division, Dorset Police
Jayne Robertson (Chair) , Safer and Stronger Communities Team - Bournemouth Borough Council:
Tim Ellis, Head of Reducing Re-offending – HMP Dorchester
Kieran Scanlan, Head of Interventions – HMP Guys Marsh
Stephen Joyce, Crime Reduction Initiative, Dorset
Karen Wood, Co-ordinator – Drug and Alcohol Action Team, Bournemouth
Chris Snelling, Co-ordinator – Drug and Alcohol Action Team, Bournemouth
Peter Monaghan, Magistrate – HM Courts Service, Weymouth
Des Persse, Head of Homelessness, Substance Misuse & Offender Management Services - BCHA
Elaine Morgan, PPO Lead – Dorset Probation Service
Mike Porter, Head of Resettlement – HMYOI Portland
Jane Ball, Co-ordinator – Prison Dialogue

Session Reports – HMP Dorchester

Bournemouth Threshold Dialogue sessions are held in five locations – prison dialogues at HMP Dorchester, HMP Guys Marsh and HMYOI Portland and community dialogues at two locations in Bournemouth.

Session reports are compiled by the facilitators and checked with participants before being distributed for prison notice boards and a wider readership.

Prison Dialogue Sessions – HMP Dorchester – a selection of reports can be found below

2011 Sessions

HMP Dorchester 5 April 2011 (pdf)
HMP Dorchester 8 February 2011 (pdf)
HMP Dorchester 11 January 2011 (pdf)
HMP Dorchester 4 January 2011 (pdf)

2010 Sessions

HMP Dorchester 8 November 2010 (pdf)
HMP Dorchester 2 November 2010 (pdf)
HMP Dorchester 26 October 2010 (pdf)
HMP Dorchester 19 October 2010 (pdf)
HMP Dorchester 21 September 2010 (pdf)
HMP Dorchester 14 September 2010 (pdf)
HMP Dorchester 7 September 2010 (pdf)
HMP Dorchester 6 July 2010 (pdf)
HMP Dorchester 15 June 2010 (pdf)

Session Reports – HMP Guys Marsh

Bournemouth Threshold Dialogue sessions are held in five locations – prison dialogues at HMP Dorchester, HMP Guys Marsh and HMYOI Portland and community dialogues at two locations in Bournemouth.

Session reports are compiled by the facilitators and checked with participants before being distributed for prison notice boards and a wider readership.

Prison Dialogue Sessions – HMP Guys Marsh – a selection of reports can be found below

2010 Sessions

HMP Guys Marsh 3 August 2010 (pdf)
HMP Guys Marsh 27 July 2010 (pdf)
HMP Guys Marsh 6 July 2010 (pdf)
HMP Guys Marsh 22 June 2010 (pdf)
HMP Guys Marsh 27 April 2010 (pdf)
HMP Guys Marsh 16 March 2010 (pdf)

Session Reports – HMYOI Portland

Bournemouth Threshold Dialogue sessions are held in five locations – prison dialogues at HMP Dorchester, HMP Guys Marsh and HMYOI Portland and community dialogues at two locations in Bournemouth.

Session reports are compiled by the facilitators and checked with participants before being distributed for prison notice boards and a wider readership.

Prison Dialogue Sessions – HMYOI Portland – a selection of reports can be found below

2010 Sessions

HMYOI Portland 15 November 2010 (pdf)
HMYOI Portland 5 November 2010 (pdf)
HMYOI Portland 8 October 2010 (pdf)

2009 Sessions

HMYOI Portland 5 November 2009 (pdf)
HMYOI Portland 8 October 2009 (pdf)
HMYOI Portland 15 September 2009 (pdf)

Session Reports – Bournemouth

Bournemouth Threshold Dialogue sessions are held in five locations – prison dialogues at HMP Dorchester, HMP Guys Marsh and HMYOI Portland and community dialogues at two locations in Bournemouth.

Session reports are compiled by the facilitators and checked with participants before being distributed for prison notice boards and a wider readership.

Community Dialogue Sessions - a selection of reports can be found below

2010 Sessions

Bournemouth BCHA Dorset Lodge 14 October 2010 (pdf)
Bournemouth BCHA Dorset Lodge 9 September 2010 (pdf)
Bournemouth BCHA Dorset Lodge 2 September 2010 (pdf)
Bournemouth BCHA St Paul’s 24 June 2010 (pdf)
Bournemouth BCHA St Paul’s 22 April 2010 (pdf)
Bournemouth BCHA Dorset Lodge 22 April 2010