Partnership Finder

The CLA works with all care leavers over the age of 16. We are guided by the views of our membership and thus hav0a wide range of areas of interest and activity. However, our work can be grouped into five main areas:

•User Led Support - A Network Project, group support, social networking site and virtual mechanisms to help people connect.
•Projects - Areas of work with specific outcomes – young people, access to records, speaking out, media.
•Training and Assessment - We work with a wide range of organisations to improve service delivery to care leavers through training and quality assessment.
•Advice, information and signposting - Focus on informing care leavers about their rights through signposting to additional support services and developing our guides and fact sheets while providing some individual casework.
•Research, Policy and Campaigns - We conduct, collate and promote research about care leavers

"Coaching Inside and Out (CIAO) enables self-determined and sustainable change in people convicted of offences, or at risk of offending, in prison and the community through life coaching.
CIAO is unusual and radical in its psychological depth: it gets to the root of why people feel ‘stuck’ and empowers them to move forward. It supports and challenges using thought-provoking questions to generate ideas and insights. It doesn’t give advice or provide mentoring, instead it gives choice and responsibility.

The charity also provides training and facilitates Coaching Groups to develop capacity in others, as well as coaching staff working with its clients and families supporting them.

CIAO is often brought in to help highly disadvantaged and vulnerable people where other approaches haven’t worked. People whose lives have broken down beyond recognition with the most challenging behaviour.

It’s never too early and never too late.”

Metanoeo offers the troubled and troublesome life coaching to help build a positive fulfilling life. Metanoeo also provides training and academic courses. Metanoeo has a particular interest in engaging service user's faith concepts (including spirituality, religion, humanism or belief which is helpful to them).

No Offence! facilitates open access to and exchange of crime and justice information, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

No Offence! is a social enterprise, community interest company, not driven by private profit.

Our innovative and engaging approach facilitates the sharing of this information by instigating, supporting and encouraging communication and debate, which promotes wider understanding of complex criminal justice issues across society. By challenging barriers to positive change and influencing future policy, our objective is simple: to make a difference.

We have created a criminal justice information exchange service, which has become a centre for excellence, for the significant benefit of all who engage within the criminal justice sector.

POPS is a user-led organisation, supporting families through their contact with the criminal justice system (CJS) as a result of a loved one’s conviction.

POPS’ work:
 strengthens & rebuilds family ties
 creates safe spaces for families & under-represented communities to speak out about issues affecting them
 increases public awareness of the impact of the CJS
 advocates for changes in public policy & commissioning.

POPS provides:
 Family Support Services at 14 prisons across the North-West/Yorkshire/Leicestershire;
 Community-based support for women through the Farida Women’s Centre (Oldham);
 Community-based support for people on probation and their families (Wellbeing Service - Greater Manchester);
 Prison & community-based education programmes;
 Community-based interventions for prisoners from BAME backgrounds;
 Advocacy & support for under-represented communities.

The Prisoners' Advice Service provides free legal advice and representation to adult prisoners in England and Wales regarding their rights, and regardless of the individual prisoners' means. PAS aims to educate and empower prisoners regarding the law and their legal and human rights.

Shelter offer free, confidential and independent advice and information to people with housing related problems. This includes services delivered under the MoJ's Dynamic Framework in Yorkshire and The Humber and East Midlands. Shelter deliver accommodation interventions to service users and expert advice and training to professionals, in order to support people subject to probation supervision to resettle in their communities.

Sue Ryder supports people living through the challenges of life-limiting conditions in our hospices, neurological care centres and in the community.
Sue Ryder's award winning prison volunteer programme offers work experience and training to currently serving offenders helping to equip them with transferable skills whilst increasing their self-confidence and self-esteem. We are currently working with around 60 prisons nationally with volunteers working in a variety of roles in over 120 locations. Many of our volunteers move on to paid work with us.