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Revolving Doors Agency welcomes the recommendations made by Dame Carol Black in her review of substance misuse, obesity and employment.

Trustees and staff are delighted to announce that David Williams is to Chair Revolving Doors Agency from January 2017.

Revolving Doors Agency welcomes the Secretary of State’s ambition to improve safety and rehabilitation in prisons. But warns that without also reducing numbers of ineffective short prison sentences and providing better support for people on release from prison, any change will be limited.

National charity, Revolving Doors Agency, has been shortlisted for the prestigious UK Social Enterprise Awards, 2016. The vision of Revolving Doors is that by 2025 no-one will be stuck in the revolving door of crisis and crime.

Forward from Christina Marriott   Today The Guardian published the shortlist for the 2016 Guardian Charity Awards and…

On 3rd October myself and another Lived Experience Team member presented the recent progress on the liaison and diversion peer support model which the team has been developing over the last few months to the national Liaison and Diversion Programme Board.

National charity, Revolving Doors Agency, is delighted to be shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Guardian Charity Awards.

Revolving Doors’ associate Mark Nash blogs about his experiences of running focus groups in Barking and Dagenham around domestic abuse and how it is handled in services.

It is hugely disappointing that the extension of support and supervision to short sentenced prisoners is, as yet, failing in its aim to break what for many can be a ‘revolving door’ of crisis and crime.

On 14th September, Revolving Doors Agency gave evidence to the Work & Pensions Committee as part of their inquiry into employment support for ex-offenders.

Proposed changes to the way that supported housing rent is met would have placed many services and the hundreds of thousands of people who use them at risk. Today, the Government has announced measures that will provide some reassurance.

Today the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee has issued a report on homelessness, the result of a wide ranging inquiry aimed at getting to the heart of the problems behind an increase in all forms of homelessness. The recommendations include a reform of homelessness legislation, and increased supply of affordable housing.