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Join ClinksPact is a pioneering national charity that supports prisoners, people with convictions, and their children and families. We provide caring and life-changing services at every stage of the criminal justice process: in court, in prison, on release, and in the community, based on a public health model of practice.
We work in more than 60 prisons and provide prison-based family engagement and social workers, Visitors’ Centres, visitor support, supervised play, catering, family activities, relationship and parenting education programmes, court and community family support, resettlement support and community-based mentoring and befriending programmes. Our volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England & Wales.
We also run the HMPPS contracted national Prisoners' Families Helpline which can be reached seven days a week on 0808 808 2003.
We work in more than 60 prisons and provide prison-based family engagement and social workers, Visitors’ Centres, visitor support, supervised play, catering, family activities, relationship and parenting education programmes, court and community family support, resettlement support and community-based mentoring and befriending programmes. Our volunteers and staff can be found in courts, prisons, probation services, and in communities across England & Wales.
We also run the HMPPS contracted national Prisoners' Families Helpline which can be reached seven days a week on 0808 808 2003.
Contact
Address
29 Peckham Road
London
Greater London
SE5 8UA
United Kingdom
Help Line No.
0808 808 2003
Work Tel. No.
0207 735 9535
info@prisonadvice.org.uk
Website
In Brief
Primary Field of Work
Relationships
Custody or Community
Custody
Community
No. of service users
20000
No. of Paid Staff
380
No. of Volunteers
500
No. of peer mentors
50
Organisation type
Voluntary and Community Sector
Legal status
Charitable incorporated organisation
Year of Formation
1898
Organisation's Income
Over £10m
Contract History
Evidence reports
https://www.prisonadvice.org.uk/research
Supporting information
Pact’s services have been externally evaluated and their impact measured as follows:
• University of Roehampton, 2012 which found that 74% of participants showed a significant improvement in risk of self-harm, improved behaviour, understanding family consequences of their actions, building positive relationships and facilitating the joining up of services across the children and families pathway.
• New Economics Foundation, 2011 which found that for every £1 invested, a return of £11.41 was made primarily from reductions in reoffending but also in terms of social services and health, childcare, housing and unemployment costs during the immediate period of their engagement.
• A matched pair analysis through the MoJ Data Laboratory found that re-offence rates for those attending our Building Stronger Families course were 19% as opposed to 29% within the comparator cohort.
• University of Roehampton, 2012 which found that 74% of participants showed a significant improvement in risk of self-harm, improved behaviour, understanding family consequences of their actions, building positive relationships and facilitating the joining up of services across the children and families pathway.
• New Economics Foundation, 2011 which found that for every £1 invested, a return of £11.41 was made primarily from reductions in reoffending but also in terms of social services and health, childcare, housing and unemployment costs during the immediate period of their engagement.
• A matched pair analysis through the MoJ Data Laboratory found that re-offence rates for those attending our Building Stronger Families course were 19% as opposed to 29% within the comparator cohort.
Partner organisations
Regions
East
East Midlands
London
South East
North East
North West
South West
Wales
West Midlands
Yorkshire and the Humber
Remote
Area covered
National - England and Wales
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy
Attitudes, thinking and behaviour
Case management
Collaboration and partnership working
Education
Employment
Evaluation and effectiveness
Faith
Holistic services
Lobbying & campaigning
Mediation
Mental health
Mentoring & befriending
Sentence management
Other
Parenting skills
Peer support
Personal development
Prison reform
Prisons
Relationships
Research & academia
Resettlement
Restorative justice
Lived experience involvement
Suicide and self-harm
Through the gate
Training
Visitors centre
Volunteering
People you work with
Children
Families
Men
People on a short sentence
People convicted of serious offences
People convicted of sexual offences
Women
Young people