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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.

What is ISW Services?

ISW Services CIC is a non-profit organisation providing support services, advocacy and guidance. Here at ISW Services CIC, we run an independent, confidential support service which is catered to the individual needs of the client. Our support workers have several years of experience and qualifications relating to relevant support.

How can we support you?
We provide advocates to support clients in a variety of areas. These include:

Benefits · Debt · Housing · The prison and probation system · Education and training · Business support · Life skills · Bill management · Complaints handling · Social care · Family law · Power of Attorney registration · Advocacy · Mentoring · Guidance · Referrals · Home visits for vulnerable clients

KMC is a specialist employment service supporting people with convictions. We organise employment events in custody by developing relationships with local and national companies who are willing to come into the prisons and recruit those who are about to be released. KMC also offers a bespoke employment service through the gate and in the community by identifying local labour shortages and facilitating relevant training and opportunities in the work place.

Our primary aim is to help people struggling to find work because of a criminal conviction. We offer a direct link to numerous employers, can help with CV and disclosure writing and how to access funding for training.

Our purpose is to provide support and relief, including rehabilitation from the causes and effects of poverty, homelessness, illness and criminal behaviour for persons aged 16 and over in the county of Kent and surrounding area by providing or assisting in the provision of accommodation, education, training for employment, advice and counselling and other supportive facilities for such persons.
Our Vision
To build communities where homeless people have the opportunity and support to build successful lives.
Our Strategic Objectives
To be a trusted provider of high quality, tailored, localised support to help people move beyond homelessness by providing them with the opportunities, skills and resilience to become self-reliant and self-supporting in their lives.
Most of our clients present with complex needs and Pathways is committed to either resourcing, or sourcing different services and/or meaningful activities to help empower clients and meet the diverse level of need.

Rescue Restore Release is community interest company, working with young adults and their families who are at risk of offending and young adults who are currently in custody. Our aim is to reduce re-offending behavior, prevent criminal activities among young people by providing a holistic and supportive approach through working with specialist mentors. We aim to work with a focus on the positive integration of challenging young people from hard to reach communities.

At Richmond Fellowship we have been championing recovery and social inclusion for more than 50 years and we are now one of the largest voluntary sector providers of mental health support across England. We work with more than 9,000 people every year across more than 120 localised services. These include specialist offender services and accommodation and community based services that enable individuals with forensic histories to change their lives. Our services ensure better mental health and wellbeing that leads to greater independence, self-awareness, confidence, self-worth, financial inclusion and positive participation in mainstream communities.

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.

We are a long-established charity, started 20 years ago. We principally work with young people to educate and inform them about the dangers of criminal behaviour and stage multi-agency crime and safety awareness days in secondary schools.
We also take offenders, released on licence to these days and have employed offenders and ex-offenders to deliver workshops in schools which has given them a purpose in life and assisted with their rehabilitation.