Churches Criminal Justice Forum

About Good Practice

                                                                                               

We want to promote good practice that helps to reduce re-offending in communities across the country click on any of the links below for further information:  

Accommodation / Education, training and employment / Health / Drugs & Alcohol / Finance, benefit & debt / Children & families / Attitudes, thinking & behaviour /

 

Good practice examples: Accommodation

Getting offenders into stable accommodation is a critical step towards successful rehabilitation.  We want to promote projects that offer vulnerable people the opportunity to improve their quality of life by providing a stable environment which enables greater independence.

Case Study 1: Depaul Trust  /  Case Study 2: YMCA         Case Study 3: Green Pastures

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Good practice examples: Education, training and employment

Lack of employment is one of the major factors associated with re-offending. We want to promote projects that address offenders' education, training and employment needs.

Case Study 1: Apex Trust  /  Case Study 2: Langley House Trust
 

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Good practice examples: Health

Offenders struggle to access health facilities and therefore are at a greater risk of continued offending. We want to promote projects that help offenders gain access to appropriate health services in custody and the community diverting offenders with serious mental healthcare needs to appropriate health services.

Case Study 1  /    Case Study 2 

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Good practice examples: Drugs and alcohol

A high percentage of offenders have a drugs or alcohol problem therefore we want to promote projects that identifying children and young people who have, or are at risk of developing, substance misuse problems assessing their needs; and facilitating appropriate support and treatment services.

Case Study 1: Kenward Trust  /  Case Study 2
 

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Good practice examples: Finance, benefit and debt

Low incomes, debt, disrupted access to benefits advice and insufficient income on release from prison all add to the problem. We want to promote projects that supports ex-offenders and serving prisoners to overcome social and financial exclusion.

Case Study 1  /  Case Study 2
 

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Good practice examples: Children and families

Many offenders’ relationships are broken or fragmented as a result of their offending, leaving their families unsupported, and increasing the likelihood of inter-generational offending, mental health and financial problems.  We want to promote projects that enable children and families to play a significant role in supporting an offender to make and sustain changes which reduce re-offending.

Case Study 1: Mothers Union  /  Case Study 2
 

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Good practice examples: Attitudes, thinking and behaviour

One of the stepping stones to rehabilitating offenders is to help them overcome negative and destructive patterns of thinking and behaviour. We want to promote projects that address offender’s attitudes, thinking and behaviour.

Case Study 1: Kainos Community  /  Case Study 2: Clear Break  /   Case Study 3: Street Pastors

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