In 2016,  the Office of the  South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service in Wales, co-commissioned a substance misuse offender intervention service.  The Service was awarded to the ‘Dyfodol De Cymru’ consortium – being delivered by G4S Community, Kaleidoscope and Adferiad, and was available across South Wales, in the Police Custody Suites, Courts, Community Bases and the public prisons including HMP Swansea, Cardiff, Usk and Prescoed.

The service was tendered to support a person through the criminal justice system, from Police Custody, to Court, to Prison and upon release into the Community

A graphic capturing the areas of work that the Dyfodol contract delivered. There are 4 boxes, Box 1:Police custody - Drug test on arrest | Arrest referral there is a small logo of a badge, Box 2: Advice and Guidance - to Probation and Courts with a small logo of two people with a speech bubble above them Box 3: Prison Custody: Psychosocial intervention | Pre-release Planning with a small logo depicting a prison entry Box 4: Support in the community Clinical | Psychosocial intervention with a small logo of a group of people with a cupped hand underneath them demonstrating support

The aim of the service was to assess, engage and divert individuals out of crime and into appropriate levels of interventions, supporting the reduction of drug and alcohol related harm, and reducing levels of offending.

 

The Dyfodol De Cymru logo of a blue lighthouse on a wave, a green mine hoist with a big wheel on a green wave and a red caste with a singular turret on a red wave Dyfodol De Cymru 2025-2026 Annual Impact Summary 2077- Referrals made to the service withan image of a handshake 2073 Assessments undertaken with an image of a clipboard and tick boxes 2072 people started on caseload with an image representing people 19,372 - number of contacts made in police custody with a logo of a police hat with a badge on the front 733 number of court advice contacts with a justice scales 8529 number of induction assessment conducted in prison with a clipboard, with a person shape and a pen and ticks and lines 4185 number of brief interventions conducted in prison with speech bubble logos 2113 neutral and positive closure outcomes for people receiving community interventions with a logo of a sun half on the horizon
Dyfodol De Cymru 2025-2026 Impact summary