Blog

Beatrice Finch, HMPPS Rehabilitation Directorate Sustainability Lead, explains what is happening across HMPPS and explains how you can help support biodiversity.

In this guest blog (originally published in 2022) Gill Hunter and Suzanne Smith highlight how best to support both people in the Criminal Justice System who speak English as a second or additional language and the practitioners on the frontline assisting them.

Vikki Ryan, Young Adults, National Prison Lead and Jane Browne, Head of Youths & Young Adults, National Probation Lead, explain the work that has been progressed to improve how young adults transition between youth and adult custody, youth custody to the probation service and between youth justice and probation. This blog was originally published to support HMPPS Young Adult Awareness Week in February 2022 has been updated to signpost to the published policies. 

In this revised blog, Jason Swettenham provides an insight into the range and volume of essential goods produced in prison workshops, and their important role in supporting safe and decent regimes, as well as providing transferable skills for employment on release.

Keely Wilkinson from the Evidence Based Practice Team talks us through what we can do to make difficult conversations easier, and work towards their resolution.

Flora Fitzalan Howard & Dr Helen Wakeling from HMPPS Evidence and Insights Evidence-Based Practice Team, talk us through their research findings.