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The pandemic has created a real and significant strain to our public services, focusing all of our efforts to emergency support and individual welfare. But public services need to focus back on structural inequalities and trauma to effectively mitigate against the long-term impact of the pandemic in our communities, writes Burcu Borysik.

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…