Centre for Justice Innovation evidence and practice briefing on improving collaboration between police forces and women’s ...

The newest additions to the Butler Trust’s Knowledge Exchange site for prison, probation and youth justice practitioners.

Centre for Justice Innovation evidence and practice briefing on improving collaboration between police forces and women’s centres. Dr Hope Kent and Professor Stan Gilmour highlight the prevalence of ...

L ast week (3 April 2025), Clinks published its latest annual annual State of the Sector report. For over a decade, Clinks has surveyed the voluntary sector working with people in contact with the ...

E arlier this week (10 December 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts based on perhaps the most important drug-related report of the current century, Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. Today’s post looks at the section from that ...

Everyone knows that finding work is a key component to going straight; a factor which is confirmed by the evidence base. There are four key reasons why employment promotes desistance: An individual ...

This is my Christmas Quiz, it works like a regular advent calendar and tests your knowledge of some of 2025’s main events in criminal justice. It’s certainly been a busy year. Just click on today’s ...

1 The parole board’s strapline is “working with others to protect the public”. 2 Political involvement in high profile parole decisions. The Victims and Prisoners Act (2024) introduced a new provision ...

Crest Advisory research find the effects of maternal imprisonment can be severe and long-lasting on children, leading to exclusion and exploitation. Clinks and Birth Companions report into the needs ...

This is a guest post by Jon Collins, Chief Exec of the Prisoners’ Education Trust. Back in April 2022 I attended the first market warming event for the procurement process for new contracts to deliver ...

This problem is an underacknowledged factor in the prison population crisis, and Switchback has published a new report presenting recommendations for urgent change. Several other justice organisations ...