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The Insights Festival is back and will take place from 17 – 28 November 2025. The Insights Festival brings together prison, probation, youth services, voluntary sector and wider justice services to learn from insight, data and evidence, share, connect and celebrate the great work we do.

Insights25 will continue to offer our award-winning signature mix of exclusive unique behind the scenes and VIP events.

This year, the Festival will be smaller and more tightly focussed on the strategic aim of empowering, enabling and looking after our people who work across the criminal justice sector and celebrating their important work.

We aim to open applications to host events around 28 April, so keep an eye out here for updates on how you can get involved.

The Insights Festival is an award-winning programme of events which aims to showcase the breadth of innovative work taking place across prison, probation, youth services, voluntary sector and wider justice services.

While we await the next festival, we will continue to deliver a programme of online panel events throughout 2024 which aim to bring:

evidence, data and insight to life, and support staff to apply it to decision making and practice
leading academics, policy, operational staff, partners and people with lived experience together to discuss key findings from research, how this can be applied on the frontline, and share good practice

If you have an idea for a panel event, please contact us.

Contact the Insights Team