ABSTRACT
Essentially management structures are put in place to regulate the relationship between the offender and society. With a management structure of parallel models of care, each presenting problem can be matched to its corresponding agency/ professional/intervention. Integrated models intuitively appear to hold the solution to the fragmentation found in parallel services, but associated with this, there is inevitably a significant impact on the autonomy of each member of the partnership, which is restricted as a result of multi-agency collaboration. This raises some questions and concerns not apparently answered by current policy guidance which are detailed in the dilemmas outlined below: Whether or not an integrated model should be centred around the Multi-Agency Public Protection Panels is unclear.
