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Prison
Health and well-being in future prisons

Latest post on RSA Future Prison report looks at one of the most challenging aspects of reform – how tackle under-pressure and fragmented health provision.

Payment by Results
Social Impact Bonds: The early years

New report from Social Finance looks at the spread of social impact bonds across the globe and expects their development to become less complex.

Prison
Volunteers in prison

Reports from Clinks and User Voice on the wide range of work done by volunteers in our prisons and the benefits for volunteers and prisoners.

Featured
Making sense of payment by results

The purpose of the new interactive tool is to help commissioners, investors and providers consider whether it might be appropriate to use PbR for a particular service. The tool asks key questions on both the rationale for using PbR and key elements of the contract such as defining and validating outcomes and guarding against common PbR problems such as “creaming and parking” and unintended consequences.

Criminal Justice
Latest research on electronic monitoring

Electronic monitoring is an accepted and important component within the criminal justice system but its use is insufficiently regulated allowing it be applied unfairly.

Alcohol/Drugs/Gambling
Drinking patterns in 2016

House of Commons briefing paper finds alcohol consumption has stabilised but there are still more than 300k alcohol-related hospital admissions in England

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