Prison
Funding crisis for criminal justice charities
NPC report estimates a 50% drop in the amount of grant funding received by charities in the justice sector.
4th July 2019
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NPC report estimates a 50% drop in the amount of grant funding received by charities in the justice sector.
Women have often been victims themselves: either emotional, physical or sexual abuse as a child or exploited to support someone else’s drug use.
NPCThinks finds that the many voluntary sector organisations working with offenders are at risk of closing as a result of Transforming Rehabilitation.
However, it may be that many of these voluntary sector providers would have been neither able nor willing to deliver probation services at the prices eventually set by the MoJ. Indeed, some of the successful private firms may already ruing their good fortune as they wrestle with the “winner’s curse”.
I can foresee a situation in the near future where the MoJ links its own funding to participation in the Justice Data Lab and puts pressure on other funders to do the same.
Times of change A recent (9 April 2015) report from New Philanthropy Capital – “Times of Change” – is an excellent short summary of the main
