First in a series of blogs on the Community Sentence Treatment Requirements (CSTR) programme, this blog by Clinks and Nacro looks at the Essex CSTR site to learn how they became a CSTR site, their learnings, and how service users benefit from this change.

Breaking down what the £148 million of new investment into funding substance misuse services and reducing reoffending is going towards specifically, relating to the voluntary sector working in the criminal justice system.

Executive Director for External Affairs at Changing Lives, Laura Seebohm, talks about the impact of deprivation, discrimination and trauma on people’s lives. She explores a radical re-imagining of how we can better support the mental health of people going through challenging times.

This blog provides updates on the government's approach to vaccinations in prisons, current progress of the vaccination programme and ways of responding to vaccine hesitancy among people in the criminal justice system.

Kate Morrissey introduces the RECONNECT service and explains how it was developed in consultation with people with lived experience and voluntary sector organisations.

This blog details the journey Good Vibrations went through during the pandemic and how it adapted to the changing restrictions.

Zahra Wynne reflects on our recent event on diversity in service user involvement, including speakers from Maslaha and Revolving Doors Agency.

Clinks has awarded a further £163,500 to 32 voluntary sector organisations working with individuals in contact with the criminal justice system, on behalf of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ)/Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

This blog summarises key information on how future services under the reformed probation model will be commissioned, and how these plans may affect voluntary organisations and their service users.

We welcome the Ministry of Justice’s announcement that it will provide additional funding to support prison leavers into temporary accommodation and to prevent rough sleeping.