On 31st of January this year, the UK recorded our first death from coronavirus. On that date the number of people in prison in England and Wales was 83,329. The Ministry of Justice issues weekly updates on the number of people in custody, publishing them every Friday morning. For the… Work with Offenders looks at the latest data...
This is the fifth in our occasional series on key independent organisations operating within the criminal justice sector. History Clinks (not to be confused with the prison restaurant charity, The Clink) was formed in 1998, originally to co-ordinate the work of the voluntary sector in five London prisons, with a… Work with Offenders profiles one of the UK’s leading charities co-ordinating the criminal justice voluntary sector...
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has today published new research exploring the challenges faced by victims and survivors in accessing statutory, private and voluntary sector support services. Commissioned by the Inquiry and carried out by independent research consultants Anna Gekoski and Steve Broome in conjunction with the University… Work with Offenders looks in detail at a new report on support for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse...
The Ministry of Justice, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and the Office for National Statistics all publish a range of quarterly and annual statistical bulletins on a wide range of issues affecting the criminal justice system. The latest editions of a number of these statistical resources were published at… Work with Offenders takes a deep dive into the latest official statistics...
The MoJ has just announced that the government’s preferred candidate to be the next Chief Inspector of Prisons is Charlie Taylor. Mr Taylor is best known in youth justice and education circles. A teacher by profession, he was Head at two special schools for children with severe behavioural difficulties between… Work with offenders profiles the next chief prison inspector....
Dame Vera Baird was appointed Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales in June 2019, but you might be forgiven for thinking that she had been in post for much longer. She is putting all the skills and know-how she learnt throughout a long and successful career as a barrister, MP,… Work with offenders looks at the latest report from the Victims’ Commissioner....
Everyone knows that, after a home, finding a job is the most important factor for most people trying to put a life of crime behind them. We have plenty of research evidence to back up this commonsense assumption. The literature highlights four key reasons why employment helps people move away… Work with offenders investigates the latest data showing just how few offenders are in work....
1,000 new probation officers The Ministry of Justice announced today that frontline probation services will be boosted by a major new recruitment campaign looking to have a thousand extra probation officers in training by the end of the financial year. The announcement was made by Prisons and Probation Minister Lucy… Work with offenders looks at the detail of the new probation workforce strategy...
A big rise in the number of older people in prison Yesterday the House of Commons Justice Committee published a new report with recommendations from their inquiry into the challenges of managing an ageing inmate population. Older prisoners are the fastest growing group in the prison population. The number of… Work with offenders examines a new Justice Committee report....
The MoJ has published its evaluation of digital technology in prisons. Authored by a team of researchers at the University of Leicester (where there is an accumulation of international expertise in the subject), the evaluation looked at the impact of: in-cell telephony, whereby PIN telephones are installed within prisoner cells,… Work with offenders looks at the Ministry ofJustice’s new evaluation of digital technology in prisons....