Human touch is fundamental to psychological wellbeing. It regulates emotion, reinforces identity, and underpins social ...

is OST (Opiate Substitution Treatment – prescribed medication as a legal and safer substitute for heroin or other opiate use) ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts based on perhaps the most important drug-related report of the current century, Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. Today’s post looks at the section from that ...

Over the last year Revolving Doors has spoken to 141 people with lived experience[1] of probation supervision to better understand the strengths of, and challenges with, the probation service. A ...

L ast week (3 April 2025), Clinks published its latest annual annual State of the Sector report. For over a decade, Clinks has surveyed the voluntary sector working with people in contact with the ...

C links Reducing Reoffending Third Sector Advisory Group (RR3) Special Interest Group has just (14 January 2026) published a report on a ‘Whole Systems Approach’ for women in contact with the criminal ...

Yesterday the government announced it has abandoned its plans to close our most dilapidated Victorian prisons. The plan to modernise our prison estate was originally proposed by Michael Gove in ...

T he MoJ yesterday (9 January 2025) published an evaluation of the Kaizen offending behaviour programme which is designed for adult males who have been convicted of sexual (SO), intimate partner ...

E arlier this week (10 December 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching ...

Regular readers will know I punctuate the year with three Quizzes – Advent, Easter & August Bank Holiday. So here is your Summer 2024 edition. It’s a simple multiple choice test about anything and ...

Kieran McCartan summarises the evidence base around trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences in the lives of people who have committed offences. Trauma is a broad and varied concept, but fundamentally ...

This is a guest post by Jon Collins, Chief Exec of the Prisoners’ Education Trust. Back in April 2022 I attended the first market warming event for the procurement process for new contracts to deliver ...