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 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

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 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

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

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

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

Willow Unit

[Warren Hill prison (2022)]

Ruth Mann Trophy submission: modelled on Approved Premises, the Willow Unit offers an experience that replicates principles of normality in order to best prepare prisoners for their progression or release.

Keywords: resettlement, progression

OMU Engagement Programme

[Thorn Cross prison (2022)]

Ruth Mann Trophy submission: a programme to make OMU “the hub of the prison,” with Peer Assistants giving advice and guidance, as well as taking applications and assisting staff at a weekly drop-in service.

Keywords: resettlement, employment, peer support