This year, Nacro Education celebrates Learning Disability Week and its theme, “Do you see me?” which is all about being seen, heard and valued. Here are just some of the ways we hope we’ve helped our students with learning disabilities feel seen.
Blog from a Nacro Accommodation Advisor discussing about what is happening in the services with the early release scheme.
Nacro comments on the Government extension their prisons’ early release scheme to allow people to leave prison up to 70 days before the end of their sentence.
Nacro and the Prison Reform Trust sent a joint letter to the Telegraph to call for more political action on the presumption against short sentences.
“This is a failure decades in the making, but a crisis growing on a daily basis. Every day we are seeing people released from prison with little notice, nowhere to live and without the support to help them turn their lives around on the outside.
IPPs, introduced in England and Wales in 2003, are a form of imprisonment without a defined release date. Controversial and unjust, IPPs were officially abolished on 1 May 2012. Twelve years later however, we have almost 3000 people that remain subject to an IPP sentence. This is unacceptable.
Every person regardless of their gender identity deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. This is particularly relevant for members of the trans community, who are presently being demonised and widely persecuted by the media and sections of society.
The Student Voice Council meeting took place online on the 24th April 2024 with student and staff representatives coming along from across our Education Centres and Totton College.
There are many ways to deal with grief and the challenges it can bring in the moment. Joanne Fraser’s passing was devastating news at Nacro and was another incredible shock for her cousin Roshni Goodwin, who was already grieving from family loss.
Today’s Government data shows a concerning rise in the number of children and young people being permanently excluded and suspended from school.
