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) ...

The Home Office has just (13 April 2026) published the latest findings from its Wastewater Analysis for Narcotics Detection (WAND) Programme which takes samples from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs ...

While we might all think we know the answer to this question; it is very helpful to be walked through the process with clarity. Facial recognition technology (FRT) is a biometric technology that ...

Y esterday (31 March 2026) 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 ...

Anyone and everyone who wants accurate up-to-date information on what is going on in our prisons relies on the prison factfiles produced by the Prison Reform Trust. Known as the Bromley Briefings, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up prison performance in the third of her series of performance tracker guest posts. Day-to-day spending on prisons fell substantially in the ...

This is a guest post by Natasha Porter, CEO & Founder of Unlocked Graduates. A prison cannot outperform the quality of its frontline staff. This is because the role of the prison officer has a huge ...