resettlement

Update and restart – Post-pandemic prison digitisation in England and Wales

[Prison Reform Trust (2025)]

Overview of current digitisation of resettlement services and potential to expand them.

Sport and physical activity as an intervention for reintegration and resettlement

[HMI Probation (2024)]

This report sets out six key mechanisms for the effective design and implementation of sport-based criminal justice interventions. [From HMI Probation’s Research & Analysis collection].

Keywords: sport, resettlement

Effective practice in resettlement

[HMI Probation (2023)]

Academic insights report, reviewing the evidence base on how best to support people as they leave prison and transition back into the community. [From HMI Probation’s Research & Analysis collection].

Keywords: resettlement

Post-release death investigations

[Prison & Probation Ombudsman (2023)]

This learning lessons bulletin summarises the learning from PPO investigations into the deaths of those who died within 14 days of release from prison.

Keywords: resettlement, health

Effective Practice Guide: Youth Resettlement

[HMI Probation (2023)]

Between January and October 2022, six youth justice services were rated ‘Outstanding’ in resettlement. This guide seeks to share the practice from these services to help improve practice in this area.

Keywords: young people, resettlement

Lancashire Release Booklet

[North West Probation (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: the Lancashire Release Booklet is a booklet – published in four languages – distributed to prisons releasing people back into the area, and includes details of all the available services in the area, for prisoners to use in planning for, and after, their release.

Keywords: health, substance misuse, resettlement

Constructive resettlement

[London Resettlement Partnership (2022)]

Online resource hub on the “constructive resettlement” approach to resettling young people in the community.

Keywords: young people, resettlement

Resettlement of children after custody

[Clinks (2022)]

Report by Neil Hazel, commissioned by Clinks, on resettling young people in the community, including recommendations on best practice. [From the Clinks online Evidence Library].

Keywords: young people, resettlement

Bridges and Beyond

[North Lanarkshire Council (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: the ‘Bridges and Beyond’ scheme run by N. Lanarkshire criminal justice social work (CJSW) provides an assertive outreach to those released from prison after less than 4 years, as this is a group whihc does not receive any statutory supervision in Scotland.

Keywords: resettlement

Community Resettlement & Integration Boards

[West Midlands Probation (2024)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy submission: the CRIB (Community Resettlement and Integration Board) at Hewell Prison brings together a wide range of agencies – both in prison and outside – to help ensure that no prisoner leaves the establishment with unaddressed resettlement needs.

Keywords: resettlement