In response to the Queen’s Speech today, Nacro CEO Campbell Robb commented: “We all share the aim of reducing crime and reducing the number of victims of crime. However, the sentencing proposals in today’s Queen’s Speech do nothing to tackle this.
Hundreds of people are released from prison every day with nowhere to live, no job and unable to buy the basics.
Read our response to the new Offender Accommodation Pilot announcement.
Read our response to HMI Prisons and Probation report on youth resettlement, stating that children leaving custody are being “set up to fail” through lack of support.
Nacro Education staff were featured in a Tes article about the safe havens that secure mental health units can provide for traumatised young people.
Read our response to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) figures regarding the number of households in temporary residence.
Read our response to Ministry of Justice figures regarding homelessness amongst people leaving prison.
Read the blog by the filmmaker, Lilka Szerszynska.
Nacro learners continue to make strides in their progress, with GCSE pass rates increasing for the third year in a row and eight of ten students securing a job, an apprenticeship or a place on a further education course.
As students across the country prepare to receive their GCSE results this week, Lisa Capper, Nacro Principal advises students how they can prepare to make the best of results day.
