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27 Nov 2020 | By nacro More school leavers without good English and maths skills harms progress to further education and jobs

In the Government’s spending review this week, Chancellor Rishi Sunak committed to further funding for skills training, with the national skills fund allocated £2.5 billion1 over five years. Yet the latest Government statistics on education and training, released yesterday, show that 34% of pupils – more than 200,000 people – in England left school at 16…

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25 Nov 2020 | By nacro Nacro response to Government announcement of 2020 Spending Review

In response to today’s Spending Review announcement, Campbell Robb, Nacro Chief Executive, commented: “Almost half of people released from prison reoffend within a year. Today’s announcement of funding for an additional 18,000 prison places will do nothing to tackle the scourge of reoffending, which is why we are calling on the Government, in the coming…

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19 Nov 2020 | By nacro DBS Filtering Regime changes to come into effect at end of November

From 28th November, changes to the DBS Filtering Regime mean that even more people with old, minor cautions and convictions will no longer need to disclose them when applying for certain roles. These roles include working with children, vulnerable people, working in certain regulated professions such as healthcare, law and senior finance roles and applications…

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12 Nov 2020 | By nacro Nacro response to the Justice Select Committee report on children and young people in custody

The Justice Committee, today, has released its report ‘Children and Young People in Custody, Part 1: Entry into the youth justice system’, off the back of its inquiry into ‘Children and Young People in the Youth Justice System’, launched in July 2019. Responding to the ‘changing demands on the youth justice system’, the report highlights…

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11 Nov 2020 | By nacro Recovery Near You wins 2020 ILLY Team of the Year award!

This year’s ILLY Team of the Year award has been given to Recovery Near You! ILLY are a national case management system that RNY has been using since 2013. The achievement was awarded at the virtual ILLY National User Group where there were presentations reflecting on how the year had gone, and staff from RNY…

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11 Nov 2020 | By nacro Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills virtually meets with our learners in Boston and Newcastle

On 10 November 2020, the Parliamentary Under Secretary for State for Apprenticeships and Skills, Gillian Keegan MP, carried out a virtual visit to our Education and Skills Centres in Boston and Newcastle, and took part in a virtual lesson. Keegan heard from two learners at our Newcastle Centre. One learner, who has returned to complete…

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03 Nov 2020 | By nacro Trustees Week – Blog by Trustee, Ron Crank MBE

I have been a Trustee of Nacro since the autumn of 2015 and there has never been a time that I have not felt an immense amount of pride in the work that the Nacro teams achieve. This year, like for everyone else, has been the most strange, weird and frustrating for all of us…

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29 Oct 2020 | By nacro Nacro wins Mayor of London funding to deliver 50 homes in partnership with Resonance

Nacro has been awarded funding by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to deliver housing for homeless Londoners from Spring 2021. The funding figure is £5m, on top of the original £15m provided by Resonance’s social impact investment property fund. Working in partnership with Resonance, Nacro will deliver 50 homes across London. Campbell Robb, Chief…

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28 Oct 2020 | By nacro How can our justice system cope with a COVID-19 second wave?

By Sam Julius, Public Affairs & Campaigns Officer Faced with a COVID-19 resurgence, as case numbers, hospital admissions and deaths all continue to rise, it is time for the Government to act by implementing – or extending – several key policies in order to reduce the impact of the virus on those in contact with…

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27 Oct 2020 | By nacro ADHD Awareness Month: Staff Blog

Well, here we go…ADHD awareness month; yet the person with ADHD who has offered to share her experience slides in with the blog that she offered to do in order to raise awareness on ADHD…at the last minute!! There is an element of irony there for sure…   This is written from my own personal experience…

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