An outline of our policy priorities and key areas of work, what we’ve been doing to influence national policy, as well as what we know is on the horizon.

Jess Mullen summarises the commissioning principles we've submitted to the government which we believe would best enable the voluntary sector to deliver services in the future probation model.

Clinks and the Prisoner Learning Alliance have been monitoring the impact of the Dynamic Purchasing System on the voluntary sector. Here's what we've found and the government's response.

A new set of fact files, written by Dr Robert Jones from the Wales Governance Centre, reveal important statistics on Welsh prisons and Welsh prisoners. This blog, written by Clinks' development officer for Wales, Bryn Hall, highlights the main findings which are of interest to the voluntary sector.

Circles UK CEO Riana Taylor explores some of the key messages that can be taken away from the recent Sky News documentary and her experience of making it, for organisations in the voluntary sector doing similarly complex work.

Arts Council England is consulting on the final draft of its 10-year strategy. This blog sets out the key aspects of the draft strategy and how organisations can respond, to help ensure arts in criminal justice is supported in the final version.

Clinks’ members will be well aware that the ministerial team at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has been shaken up again following Boris Johnson taking over at Number 10. In this blog post, we set out all the ministerial responsibilities in full.

Anne Fox, Clinks CEO and chair of the RR3, explains how the group works with the government to ensure the expertise of the voluntary sector is reflected in policy making, and gives an update on some of group’s latest work.

Our area development team reflects on the recent round of regional criminal justice forums held in Gateshead, Bradford, Manchester and Newport.

Penelope from Transform Justice writes about the complexities of using personal stories to raise awareness of criminal justice issues.