This is a guest post by Amy Loughery, Chris Devany & Laura Bainbridge who share their work on when exploited children exploit ...

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) ...

My post on the MoJ ministerial team updated today (9 September 2025) with David Lammy replacing justice secretary Shabana Mahmood who is promoted to be Home Secretary. In addition, Jake Richards has ...

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 ...

This paper draws on findings from a wider study on the criminal justice, Building Better relationships (BBR) programme, a cognitive behavioural informed intervention for men convicted of a domestic ...

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 ...

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 ...

To understand the learning from epilepsy-related deaths in prisons, the PPO team considered three categories of death types. Group 1: Where the primary cause of the prisoner’s death was epilepsy (as ...

C links’ new (30 January 2025) report, written by Drs Ruth Armstrong & Shona Minson, ‘ Justice Changes Her Face’: What Women’s Problem-Solving Courts can teach us about taking a Community Based Whole ...

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 ...

This is a guest post from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman’s unit. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) is an independent body that investigates complaints and deaths in custody. Our aim is to ...