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Clinks 2017 State of the Sector report reveals the resilience of voluntary organisations working with offenders as well as the increasing financial pressures.
New toolkit for Clinks explores a shared evidence base as a way of measuring desistance with women offenders.
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.
Latest Clinks report on probation changes finds a ‘narrowing’ of services, with changes from one-to-one support to more group work, and from more flexible person-centred approaches to a more process driven or ‘box-ticking’ arrangements.
Excellent new discussion paper from Clinks looks to develop a constructive dialogue about how our soon-to-be-reformed prison system should look.
New publication from Clinks and the Revolving Doors Agency highlights nine key issues for new Police and Crime Commissioners to work with the voluntary sector.
2016 Clinks State of the Sector report finds that the offender voluntary sector is facing a serious funding crisis with many services threatened by closure.
The guide is a practical document and provides a structured and accessible introduction to involving offenders and exoffenders; it
includes examples of good practice, checklists and signposts to further information and support.
We know that employment is key to desistance from crime, surely the Prison Service should be doing everything it can to help prisoners reintegrate into the community and go straight?
Perhaps the main challenge for probation staff working with young adult offenders in the new CRCs will be to have sufficient time to develop a trusting relationship which underpins the best probation practice.
It will be interesting to see whether the picture of reducing reoffending services looks any different by the time of the next report. At the moment, the voluntary sector which works with offenders and their families are stuck in the same position as Dante’s virtuous pagans, not sure if the future will be heaven or hell.
This is a chance to tell your story and help Clinks influence decision makers – responding to the State of the Sector survey is vitally important as it helps to develop an evidence base so Clinks can advocate on behalf of the sector. You’ll be helping Clinks to gauge the impact of policy changes on your organisation and the wellbeing of your service users. Your anonymised responses will make up a report which will be sent to key decision makers and influencers.
