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The Revolving Doors Involvement Team discuss the impact of our lived experience forums and our work with the National Expert Citizens Group (NECG)

We need to temporarily stop short prison sentences; limiting the rapid churn of people vulnerable to Covid-19 in and out of prison to keep the prison staff and prisoners safe.

Today we launch our five-year strategy, created by our dedicated staff and people with lived experience of the revolving door.

The Police Foundation researchers facilitated consultation sessions with our New Gen lived experience forum, our women’s forum and our northern and southern forums. The aim of the consultations was to understand how experiences of the criminal justice system filter through to the everyday person and whether there were differences in perceptions across people’s demographics.

  The East Midlands Lived Experience Panel have been awarded the AAA award in the Community Contribution category. Community…

I am a peer researcher on research looking at cancer in prisons. My first interviews in prison took place…

Revolving Doors Agency has appointed Nathan Dick as their new Head of Policy. Nathan joins from the Ministry of Justice where he has worked on recent probation reform. Previous roles include Advisor to Chief Inspector of Probation and the Head of Policy and Communications at Clinks. He will take up his role with Revolving Doors in January.

On Wednesday the Justice Secretary told the Justice Select Committee that “work on short-term sentences is not going to be put away in a box and forgotten” and confirmed his view that the “evidence points to the ineffectiveness” of these sentences. However, Mr Buckland went on to say his position was not to abolish short sentences, but rather to improve the range of choice that judges have of robust community options.

Today, HMI Probation publishes their report on the value of service user involvement in the review and improvement…

Since early 2018, Revolving Doors Agency has led the local evaluation of the Birmingham Changing Futures Together programme, one of twelve Fulfilling Lives: Supporting People with Multiple Needs sites funded by The Big Lottery. We published three key reports looking at their impact on services and local systems.

We welcome important work by the Secretary of State for Justice to explore a reduction in the use…

Leading criminal justice and health charities are calling on the government to strengthen the law so that anyone being considered for a prison sentence must have a relevant up to date pre-sentence report before a court can imprison them. The call forms part of a new report entitled In Ten Years Time being launched at a major health and justice conference mark the 10th anniversary of Lord Bradley’s report on improving outcomes for people with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in the criminal justice system. The report, co-authored by Revolving Doors Agency and Centre for Mental Health, argues that far too many people are still being sent to prison despite significant vulnerabilities.