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Specialise in the research and assessment of technology primarily used in prisons and probation to enhance learning, training, education and rehabilitation outcomes.

Conviction helps people to navigate and have a voice in the criminal justice system. It develops practical resources to help people access their rights and to support campaigning and policy work, and offers its casework and advocacy service for those in most need.

We provide through the gate mentoring for ex offenders across Warwickshire using volunteers supported by staff, including prison pick up and pre release work.Our community mentoring supports both practical and emotional needs. We also run a Welfare Fund and deliver a Family Support Project to encourage maintaining family ties and dealing with negative stereotypes . We recognise the additional difficulties for parents and BAME in prison. We provide a range of training for volunteers workers clients and community members. Our mentors get regular support and CPD opportunities. Our Trustee Board and staff also volunteer as mentors to enrich our practice and leadership. We promote the 7 HMPPS pathways but also include Faith and Community to give our clients the best reintegration opportunities.We run a shop cafe and gallery promoting prisoner art and craft and offering the community the opportunity to generate funds.

Grow Inspires supports social inclusion through entrepreneurship. We believe that rehabilitation requires a holistic approach that changes mindset and motivation to work with society rather than against it. Our Lottery funded programmes start with the strengths and aspirations of individuals and channel them into the best way to make legitimate money from their skills. Rather than teaching participants about enterprise, we empower them through entrepreneurship, providing highly practical coaching to develop a sustainable business. Our model uses group coaching where participants provide mutual support and learn from each other.

We also coach business people to become mentors for young entrepreneurs and source mentors for our participants from outside the offender community to improve integration with the outside world.

SherlockAI is a not-for-profit CIC who passionately believe in supporting those engaged with the criminal justice system to create better lives for themselves and our communities. We are a team of people with lived experience of the criminal justice system, Probation workers and people who have years of experience within the third sector. We combine this experience to provide excellent service to our partners. Our goal is to leverage emerging AI technology to create better outcomes for people engaged with the criminal justice system.

​But we're just getting started. We want to evolve SherlockAI into a personalised life coach companion to help each individual achieve better outcomes. We do that better as a team working with partners.

Established as a charity in 1986, YSS supports individuals who face multiple life challenges across Warwickshire and West Mercia. With a paid staff team of 50 and over 50 volunteers, YSS provides custody and community-based support to a wide variety of individuals and have particular experience and expertise of supporting those involved in the CJS and those most poorly served by public and statutory services.
YSS services include 1:1, intensive, holistic support to veterans in the CJS; those experiencing familial imprisonment; appropriate adult service; targeted Early Help; as well as supporting people into accommodation on release from prison.