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  • Pact partners with Interface to enhance professional practice and transform lives

    Pact partners with Interface to enhance professional practice and transform lives

    Pact has recently collaborated with Interface Enterprises on new training modules designed to enhance the way we work with prisoners and their families to support their health and wellbeing and make a fresh start. Read more

  • Voluntary sector partners pave the way for supporting women prison leavers

    Voluntary sector partners pave the way for supporting women prison leavers

    Pact, together with voluntary sector partners and the Ministry of Justice’s Local Leadership and Integration Fund, is launching a new project supporting women leaving HMP Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire. Read more

  • Pact welcomes CSJ report on the role of families in the criminal justice system

    Pact welcomes CSJ report on the role of families in the criminal justice system

    Independent think tank The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has today published its report, ‘The Golden Thread: Putting family at the heart of the criminal justice system’. Read more

  • Cardinal Nichols meets prisoners at HMP Wormwood Scrubs

    Cardinal Nichols meets prisoners at HMP Wormwood Scrubs

    Cardinal Vincent Nichols today met with prisoners at HMP Wormwood Scrubs in response to Pope Francis’s call ‘to engage in the exercise of deep and respectful listening to one another’. Read more

  • Pact partners with Interface to enhance professional practice and transform lives
  • Voluntary sector partners pave the way for supporting women prison leavers
  • Pact welcomes CSJ report on the role of families in the criminal justice system
  • Cardinal Nichols meets prisoners at HMP Wormwood Scrubs
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Pact partners with Interface to enhance professional practice and transform lives

Pact partners with Interface to enhance professional practice and transform lives

Pact has recently collaborated with Interface Enterprises on new training modules designed to enhance the way we work with prisoners and their families to support their health and wellbeing and make a fresh start. Read more

Published: 26th May, 2022

Author: Laura Beesley

Mental ill health in prison: Pact CEO Andy Keen-Downs features on BBC Radio 4’s File on 4

Mental ill health in prison: Pact CEO Andy Keen-Downs features on BBC Radio 4’s File on 4

This week, award-winning current-affairs radio programme File on 4 interviewed Pact CEO Andy Keen-Downs about the reality of living with mental ill health in prison. Read more

Published: 13th May, 2022

Author: Laura Beesley

Invitation to Tender: Rapid Evaluation of the Pact Programme Routes2Change at HMP/YOI Isis

Invitation to Tender: Rapid Evaluation of the Pact Programme Routes2Change at HMP/YOI Isis

Pact is seeking to commission an evaluation for the Routes2Change programme at HMP/YOI Isis based on our 'Theory of Change'. The deadline for submissions is 27th May 2022. Read more

Published: 10th May, 2022

Updated: 16th May, 2022

Author: Laura Beesley

Benefact Trust supports prisoners and their families to live healthier, more positive lives

Benefact Trust supports prisoners and their families to live healthier, more positive lives

One of the UK’s largest grant-making charities, Benefact Trust, has awarded the Prison Advice & Care Trust (Pact) funds to recruit and train a new cohort of specialist volunteers who will work with prisoners, people with convictions, and their families throughout the southeast of England to help them to make a fresh start. Read more

Published: 14th April, 2022

Updated: 27th April, 2022

Author: Alice Ketley

Voluntary sector partners pave the way for supporting women prison leavers

Voluntary sector partners pave the way for supporting women prison leavers

Pact, together with voluntary sector partners and the Ministry of Justice’s Local Leadership and Integration Fund, is launching a new project supporting women leaving HMP Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire. Read more

Published: 12th April, 2022

Updated: 13th April, 2022

Author: Laura Beesley

Pact welcomes CSJ report on the role of families in the criminal justice system

Pact welcomes CSJ report on the role of families in the criminal justice system

Independent think tank The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has today published its report, ‘The Golden Thread: Putting family at the heart of the criminal justice system’. Read more

Published: 14th March, 2022

Updated: 16th March, 2022

Author: Laura Beesley

Sir Harold Hood Memorial Lecture 2022

Sir Harold Hood Memorial Lecture 2022

Our 2022 Sir Harold Hood Memorial Lecture explored 'Reimagining Human Dignity in Dark Times'. Missed the lecture? Listen to the audio recording now. Read more

Published: 7th March, 2022

Updated: 26th May, 2022

Author: Alice Ketley

Cardinal Nichols meets prisoners at HMP Wormwood Scrubs

Cardinal Nichols meets prisoners at HMP Wormwood Scrubs

Cardinal Vincent Nichols today met with prisoners at HMP Wormwood Scrubs in response to Pope Francis’s call ‘to engage in the exercise of deep and respectful listening to one another’. Read more

Published: 20th January, 2022

Updated: 13th April, 2022

Author: Laura Beesley

Pact Appoints Professor Jim McManus as Public Health Advisor

Pact Appoints Professor Jim McManus as Public Health Advisor

Pact has welcomed Professor Jim McManus as its pro-bono Public Health Advisor.  Prof McManus will provide specialist expertise to the charity’s trustees and senior staff. Read more

Published: 10th January, 2022

Updated: 13th April, 2022

Author: Alice Ketley

HMPPS Update to Families – 20th December 2021

HMPPS Update to Families – 20th December 2021

Further to the recent letter from Director General Prisons Phil Copple, HMPPS has this week provided further information for families and loved ones on how they can help to keep prisoners safe. Read more

Published: 20th December, 2021

Updated: 8th March, 2022

Author: Laura Beesley

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  • Pact partners with Interface to enhance professional practice and transform lives

    Pact partners with Interface to enhance professional practice and transform lives

    Pact has recently collaborated with Interface Enterprises on new training modules designed to enhance the way we work with prisoners and their families to support their health and wellbeing and make a fresh start.

  • Mental ill health in prison: Pact CEO Andy Keen-Downs features on BBC Radio 4’s File on 4

    Mental ill health in prison: Pact CEO Andy Keen-Downs features on BBC Radio 4’s File on 4

    This week, award-winning current-affairs radio programme File on 4 interviewed Pact CEO Andy Keen-Downs about the reality of living with mental ill health in prison.

  • Invitation to Tender: Rapid Evaluation of the Pact Programme Routes2Change at HMP/YOI Isis

    Invitation to Tender: Rapid Evaluation of the Pact Programme Routes2Change at HMP/YOI Isis

    Pact is seeking to commission an evaluation for the Routes2Change programme at HMP/YOI Isis based on our 'Theory of Change'. The deadline for submissions is 27th May 2022.

  • Benefact Trust supports prisoners and their families to live healthier, more positive lives

    Benefact Trust supports prisoners and their families to live healthier, more positive lives

    One of the UK’s largest grant-making charities, Benefact Trust, has awarded the Prison Advice & Care Trust (Pact) funds to recruit and train a new cohort of specialist volunteers who will work with prisoners, people with convictions, and their families throughout the southeast of England to help them to make a fresh start.

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