Looking to Re-unite; Lord Farmer’s Review places renewed faith in the importance of family
Our Chief Executive reflects on Lord Farmer’s Review and how it echoes recommendations from our Re-Unite pilot project.
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Commonweal statement on Female Offenders Strategy
Commonweal statement on the publication of the long awaited female offenders strategy
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Commonweal Housing's response to Transforming Rehabilitation Inquiry Published
The House of Commons Justice Select Committee have published a submission made by Commonweal Housing in response to their inquiry into Transforming Rehabilitation.
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Commonweal Housing publish Ten Year Review on flagship Re-Unite Project
The Ten Year Review collates the key findings and conclusions Commonweal and their partners have learnt over ten year as the project evolved
Read MoreChildren on the Edge, the evolution of the Re-Unite project
2017 will mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Corston Report, the seminal review of vulnerable women in the criminal justice system that followed the tragic death of six women at Styal Prison. Baroness Corston’s review, outlining the need for a distinct, radically different, visibly-led, strategic, proportionate, holistic, woman-centred, integrated approach was published…
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Re-uniting mothers and children
Local Re-Unite successes Gloucestershire and Derby sit at two ends of the Re-Unite spectrum. Louise’s* life has been transformed – from a difficult childhood in Gloucestershire and a subsequent custodial sentence, she has now been re-united with her young son and is moving on in her life. A five bed house in Derby recently became…
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