The COMPASS model integrates principles from compassion-focused therapy, positive psychology and desistance theory to provide a holistic framework for understanding and supporting people on probation.

The COMPASS model integrates principles from compassion-focused therapy, positive psychology and desistance theory to provide ...

The newest additions to the Butler Trust's Knowledge Exchange site for prison, probation and youth justice practitioners.

Alliance for Youth Justice report examines what happens as exploited children turn 18, often being redefined as exploiters.

T he justice system can sometimes feel to victims and survivors of crime as though it is designed for everyone other than them. At the Parole Board, we want to do all we can to be more transparent ...

As part of its 2020 European Drug Report published earlier this week, the EMCDDA also made available its annual statistical bulletin which contains the most recent available data on the drug situation ...

Everyone knows that finding work is a key component to going straight; a factor which is confirmed by the evidence base. There are four key reasons why employment promotes desistance: An individual ...

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 ...

The latest Academic Insight from HMI Probation focuses on the purpose, value and functioning of knowledge partnerships in youth justice. Dr Sean Creaney and Dr Jayne Price describe how these ...

1 The parole board’s strapline is “working with others to protect the public”. 2 Political involvement in high profile parole decisions. The Victims and Prisoners Act (2024) introduced a new provision ...

Last month I wrote about the MoJ’s new leadership model for HMPPS and what I could glean about the new ONE HMPPS model, questioning whether it was in fact a merger of the prison and probation services ...