Prison Service service details

Pathways is a non-residential service, embedded within HMP/YOI Aylesbury. The team has a wide range of experience and occupations, offering a variety of interventions and services for the people in the service. The team work with the wider prison to help the service users cope with prison, progress through their sentence and prepare for transition onto other prisons or to the community.

Address: HMP/YOI Aylesbury, Bierton Road, Bucks, Aylesbury, HP20 1EH
Reception phone number: 01296 444040
Service hours: Monday – Friday – 8.45 – 16.45 (non-residential service)

What does our service do?

Men accessing Pathways are given an individualised trauma informed treatment plan, which includes individual and group interventions. These are aimed to address both clinical and risk needs. The service continues to work with those accessing work, education, and offending behaviour programmes within the wider prison. All interventions draw on attachment, trauma-informed and relational approaches to personality development and treatment. We offer the following:

Weekly key work sessions jointly with clinical and operational staff
Individual Therapy tailored to the individual
Medium term group Therapy (6-16 weeks)
Longer term Group Treatment (12-18 months)
Co-produced interventions
Occupational Therapy tailored to the Individual - sensory based approaches, socially creative groups, yoga, cooking
Therapeutic Music sessions both 1:1 and group
Art Therapy both 1:1 and group
Creative Psychotherapy / Drama both 1:1 and group
Systemic – with individuals and their families

Who is this service for?

HMP/YOI Aylesbury is a category C prison for men. It has a capacity of 40 people.

The people accepted into the service are:

Screened into the OPD Pathway
Assessed at some point during current sentence as presenting a high likelihood of violent offences and high or very high risk of harm.
Personality difficulties likely to meet criteria for a personality disorder. • Risk linked to personality difficulties/disorder.
At least 12-months remaining on sentence
Category C
Has the potential to benefit from the psychologically informed nature of Pathways’ interventions
Recalled for breaching licence conditions

Service users need to currently reside within the prison prior to being referred. Referrals can be either from staff within the establishment or self-referrals. We may be able to consider external referrals on consultation.