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on April 25th, 2018
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Gemma Holford from The Clink Charity speaks on the charities work.
The Clink Charity breaks the cycle of crime by changing attitudes both inside and outside of the prison, creating second chances and transforming lives whilst reducing reoffending rates for the benefit of society as a whole. This is accomplished by prisoners volunteering to be trained to gain an NVQ in hospitality and also be supported on release through The Clink’s mentoring programme.
New data analysis released in April 2018 from a report conducted by the Justice Data Lab (JDL) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) provides evidence that prisoners participating in our hospitality training scheme, in partnership with HMPPS, reduces reoffending rates, with the report stating we have achieved a “statistically significant result”.
Posted by Rhi Mclean
on April 19th, 2018
at 4:26 pm
A summary of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation’s probation supply chains report
This week HMI Probation published a report of their thematic inspection of probation supply chains. This inspection intended to identify the extent of provision of specialist services for people under probation supervision and review how subcontracting between Community Rehabilitation Companies and organisations that provide these services is working.
Posted by Anne Fox
on April 17th, 2018
at 9:17 am
HMI probation today (17th April 2018) launched a thematic inspection report into probation supply chains since the introduction of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms. The report’s press release states: “Probation reforms have failed to deliver the aim of ensuring that voluntary and third sector organisations play a central role in providing specialist support to offenders, according to Dame Glenys Stacey, HM Chief Inspector of Probation”.
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on March 21st, 2018
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Continuing our series of blogs about Social Impact Bonds, Nigel Ball from Government Outcome Labs responds to a previous blog from Laura Seebohm, and discusses his take on how they can be used by the voluntary sector.
Posted by Whitney Iles
on March 20th, 2018
at 2:17 pm
Laura Seebohm from Changing Lives recently wrote a blog for Clinks entitled The Women’s Sector – who’s in the room? This blog raised a number of important issues around representation and voice which Clinks wanted to continue to explore and facilitate dialogue within the sector. We asked Whitney Iles CEO of Project 507, to consider these issues further from the perspective of a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) organisation.
Almost a decade ago I was the vice-chair of Equanomics UK, a non-profit organisation that focused on Racial Equality in Policy and Economic Justice. Now, the CEO of Project 507, a social enterprise established to change systemic conditions that generate violence, I find myself having similar conversations despite the 10 year gap.
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