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Offenders and
Society |
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Partnerships to
Reduce Offending |
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| The Tudor Trust and the LankellyChase
Foundation are working together to support voluntary
organisations working within the criminal justice field in
the South West of England. Both
have a strong interest in helping to strengthen, equip and
develop voluntary and community groups in advance of and
during the roll-out of the National Offender Management
Service (NOMS) in the South West. Both Trusts have
considerable experience in funding organisations working in
this field.
After a recent consultation the
partnership has identified two distinct elements:
- A grants programme to strengthen
the work of voluntary organisations working within the
criminal justice field. We are particularly looking to
fund work which supports offenders within prison and
which continues to provide support in the community
after release.
- A capacity building initiative to
equip and develop voluntary organisations in advance of
and through the implementation of NOMS.
Trustees and staff from Tudor and
LankellyChase will be actively involved in this work and
will meet regularly to assess applications and review how
the partnership is working. Tudor and LankellyChase have
committed, in total, £1,500,000 over three years to this
work.
The partnership, known as TLC South
West, intends to make grants that each Trust might not have
considered on their own. In this way the partnership
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Applications, which should include a
brief outline, a copy of the latest annual accounts and
details of costs, can be sent to:
TLC South West
c/o the Tudor Trust
7 Ladbroke Grove
London
W11 3BD
Further information on the work of the
Tudor Trust at
www.tudortrust.org.uk
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| The Economics Case for and
Against Prison |
The attached report “The
Economic Case for and Against Prison” was
commissioned from Matrix Knowledge Group by the Monument
Trust, the LankellyChase Foundation and the Bromley
Trust.
We asked Matrix to look at
the effectiveness of prison as:
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bare custody
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prison with
additional interventions (e.g. drug treatment, sex
offender programmes, behavioural programmes,
education etc)
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community
sentences
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community
sentences with interventions
The chosen measure was the
impact of these different approaches on re-offending.
The Report compares the cost of the community sentences
versus prison sentences. The savings to the public
purse range from £30K to £88K per offender. When costs
to victims are taken into account (and this is one of
very few reports that look at these costs), the savings
range from £61K to £202K per offender. No alternative
intervention/sentence was shown to be less effective
than prison. Even where there is little difference
between a prison or a community payback sentence in
terms of cutting re-offending the conclusion is that it
is still more cost-effective to use a community sentence.
Although previous, piecemeal, research has been carried
out, the budget for prisons has risen to almost £2
billion without any reliable or consistently readable
evidence that it is effective. The re-offending rate
indicates that it is not. Indeed a school or hospital
performing so poorly would be put into special measures,
or closed. The findings of this Report show that a very
large proportion of the prison population is undergoing
a regime that is less effective at reducing re-offending
than comparable community punishment sentences with the
right interventions.
No alternative
intervention/sentence was shown to be less effective
than a bare custodial sentence and it is clear that
reducing the number of prisoners held would release a
good deal of the £2million prison budget for investment
in and development of effective measures within the
community.
The technical appendix
which describes the methodology behind the report is
available at
http://www.matrixknowledge.co.uk/prison-economics/
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Breaking the Cycle
of Abusive Relationships |
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The Guidelines for this programme have
been revised. Please see the updated version available
in PDF format. Susan Ash
July 2006 |
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Special Programme -
Refugees and Asylum Seekers |
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The Foundation has decided to amend its
special programme which works with asylum seekers.
From August 2006 we shall focus on those agencies which work
within Detention Centres or whose prime aim is combating the
destitution faced by asylum seekers who have been refused
leave to remain in this country. We want to help
alleviate immediate need as well as work more strategically
in partnership with others.
Grants are limited to work which has a recognisable
charitable purpose. Revenue grants are usually between
£5,000 - £15,000 per annum and may be available for 1-3
years. One-off capital grants are limited to £10,000. |
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Supporting Community Enterprise |
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The
Supporting Community Enterprise Grants Programme, available
to full members of the Development Trust Association (DTA)
is now closed to all new applicants. The Programme was
launched in September 2003 as a three year initiative to
encourage smaller members of the DTA to grow their
enterprise activities. The Trustees of the LankellyChase
Foundation have committed over £664,000 to 24 projects.
The Trustees
have also commissioned an external evaluation of the
Programme which is now available by
following this hyperlink to download in PDF format -
Supporting Community Enterprise Programme
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