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Offenders and
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Tudor
LankellyChase South West Partnership -
Please follow links for
further information
& an
Application Form
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Corston
Coalition -
www.corstoncoalition.org.uk
The LankellyChase Foundation
is one of the founder members of the Corston Coalition
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Time Apart
"Time Apart" is the second and final report of the seven
year long Eastern Region Families Partnership which was
launched at HMP Wayland in 2002 by Hilary Benn, the then
Prisons Minister. The partnership between the Prison
Service (and later NOMS), the Ormiston Trust and the
Lankelly Foundation (later the LankellyChase
Foundation) is unique in its regional focus, its length
and its emphasis on sustaining family relationships when
a family member is imprisoned. This partnership built
on the Ormiston Family and Children Trust's experience
and drew on the knowledge and expertise of many
individuals and agencies which enabled their services to
be greatly extended in prisons and communities
throughout the region. The partnership grew to include
many other funders and, in the last two years, developed
active links with London-based services. All the
partners remain actively engaged and, at the time of the
report, the work is continuing to flourish.
Please follow
link for further information
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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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December 2009
The LankellyChase Foundation has been collaborating with 12
grant making charitable trusts to support the Young
Foundation to produce a new report to explore unmet needs in
Britain today.
The full report and a
summary of “Sinking and Swimming – Understanding
Britain’s Unmet Needs” is available from the Young
Foundation website
www.youngfoundation.org
The study provides an overview of where the most acute needs
are in Britain today, and which needs may become more
pressing in the future. It looks at why some people can cope
with shocks and setbacks and others can’t, and at the
implications for policy, philanthropy and public action.
“Most people in Britain are living good lives and believe
that they live in strong and supportive communities.
Material poverty has declined in recent years, with
significantly fewer people unable to afford necessities.
Most are safer from crime and violence than they were a
decade ago, and dramatically safer than their equivalents
were a century ago. When they face setbacks most people
bounce back.
But Britain is
a brittle society, with many fractures and many people left
behind. Even during the long economic boom, with unmatched
wealth and prosperity, millions experienced harm and
suffering. Although Britain is a rich country, it still
suffers some very old-fashioned types of material want.
Opportunities are also very unevenly distributed, whether in
terms of jobs, skills, networks or mindsets”.
The issues raised in the
report will be debated by Trustees in the coming months and
it may be helpful for new applicants to be aware of the
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