This is a guest post by Amy Loughery, Chris Devany & Laura Bainbridge who share their work on when exploited children exploit ...

Human touch is fundamental to psychological wellbeing. It regulates emotion, reinforces identity, and underpins social ...

is OST (Opiate Substitution Treatment – prescribed medication as a legal and safer substitute for heroin or other opiate use) ...

To understand the learning from epilepsy-related deaths in prisons, the PPO team considered three categories of death types. Group 1: Where the primary cause of the prisoner’s death was epilepsy (as ...

E arlier this week (10 December 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts based on perhaps the most important drug-related report of the current century, Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. Today’s post looks at the section from that ...

The Home Office has just (13 April 2026) published the latest findings from its Wastewater Analysis for Narcotics Detection (WAND) Programme which takes samples from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs ...

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 ...

C links Reducing Reoffending Third Sector Advisory Group (RR3) Special Interest Group has just (14 January 2026) published a report on a ‘Whole Systems Approach’ for women in contact with the criminal ...

T he MoJ yesterday (9 January 2025) published an evaluation of the Kaizen offending behaviour programme which is designed for adult males who have been convicted of sexual (SO), intimate partner ...

Yesterday the government announced it has abandoned its plans to close our most dilapidated Victorian prisons. The plan to modernise our prison estate was originally proposed by Michael Gove in ...

A new (December 2025) briefing from Unlock, the charity which supports and advocates for people with criminal records to be able to move on positively in their lives, examines how the digital age has ...