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In this month's edition...
Welcoming new staff to Clinks
We are delighted to welcome Rachel Tynan to Clinks, who has taken on the role of Influence and Policy Manager. Rachel joins us from Unlock, where she led on improving access to employment and higher education. Prior to that, she worked in higher education, including a prison-university partnership, and has carried out research in the criminal justice system. Meet the team here
Clinks’ response to the Prison Strategy White Paper
We have published our response to the Ministry of Justice consultation on the Prison Strategy White Paper. To inform our response, we spoke to 113 different voluntary sector organisations working in criminal justice through three specific consultation events, and further discussions with specialist organisations. The areas we focussed on included the lack of a convincing case for the expansion of the prison estate; the lack of attention the strategy gives to the contribution of voluntary organisations despite the high volume of organisations working in prisons across England and Wales; and calling for the strategy to be explicitly anti-racist and clearly set out how it will tackle racial discrimination and disproportionality in the prison system. Read our response here and our summary blog here
Clinks briefing about recovery in prisons
The UK Health Security Agency (formerly PHE) asked Clinks to produce this briefing, in order to gain insights from the voluntary sector working in criminal justice to feed into their Covid-19 recovery strategy for prisons. This briefing was shared with the UK Health Security Agency in November 2021, to highlight was the current impact and barriers on their services are due to Covid-19, and what support do they need to aid in their recovery. Read the briefing here