The report is released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

For further information about the Justice Data Lab, please refer to the following guidance:

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Key findings this quarter

One request is being published this quarter: The Chrysalis Programme (2012-2017).

The Chrysalis Programme (2012-2017)

The Chrysalis Programme is an integrated personal leadership and effectiveness development programme, working with individuals while they are in prison. This is the first JDL evaluation for Chrysalis, looking at programme participants between 2012 and 2017.

The overall results show that those who took part in the Chrysalis Programme had a lower offending frequency compared to a matched comparison group. More people would be needed to determine the effect on the rate of reoffending and the time to first proven reoffence.

Justice Data Lab service: available reoffending data

The Justice Data Lab team have brought in reoffending data for the first quarter of 2021 into the service. It is now possible for an organisation to submit information on the individuals it was working with up to the end of March 2021, in addition to during the years 2002 to 2020.

Pre-release access

The bulletin is produced and handled by the Ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons: Minister of State, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Special Advisers, Permanent Secretary, Head of News, 1 Director General, 4 press officers, 2 policy officials, and 6 analytical officials. Relevant Special Advisers and Private Office staff of Ministers and senior officials may have access to pre-release figures to inform briefing and handling arrangements.

The report is released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. For further information about the Justice Data Lab, please refer to the guidance.

Key findings this quarter

One request is being published this quarter: Spark Inside (2016-2018).

Spark Inside

Spark Inside works with young male offenders, who are within 6 months of the end of their custodial sentence. This is the first JDL evaluation for Spark Inside, looking at programme participants between 2016 and 2018.

The overall results do not show that the programme had a statistically significant effect on a person’s reoffending behaviour. They suggest more people need to be available for analysis to determine the way in which the programme affects the one-year proven reoffending rate, the frequency of proven reoffences, and the time taken to reoffend.

Justice Data Lab service: available reoffending data

The Justice Data Lab team have brought in reoffending data for the first quarter of 2020 into the service. It is now possible for an organisation to submit information on the individuals it was working with up to the end of March 2020, in addition to during the years 2002 to 2019.

Pre-release access

The bulletin is produced and handled by the Ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons: Minister of State, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Special Advisers, Permanent Secretary, Head of News, Deputy Head of News, 2 Director Generals, 5 press officers, 3 policy officials, and 10 analytical officials.

The report is released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. For further information about the Justice Data Lab, please refer to the guidance.

Key findings this quarter

One request is being published this quarter: The Clink (2017-2020).

The Clink

The Clink work with offenders who are within 6 to 18 months of the end of their custodial sentence. This is the fourth JDL evaluation for The Clink, looking at programme participants who were released from prison between 2017 and Q2 2020. The previous analysis was published in July 2019.

The overall results show that those who took part in The Clink intervention had a lower offending frequency compared to a matched comparison group. More people would be needed to determine the effect on the rate of reoffending and the time to first proven reoffence.

Pre-release access

The bulletin is produced and handled by the Ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons: Minister of State, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Special Advisers, Permanent Secretary, Head of News, Deputy Head of News, 2 Director Generals, 8 press officers, and 9 policy and analytical advisers.

The report is released by the Ministry of Justice and produced in accordance with arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

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Key findings this month

One request is being published this month. The request is for the organisation Langley House Trust, a Housing Association and charity who provide an accommodation and floating support service to offenders in the community in 20 Local Authority areas across England and Wales.

This analysis follows on from a previous analysis of data provided by Langley House first published in December 2014 and focuses on those who received the service after getting a fine or conditional discharge. The results indicate an inconclusive impact on the main one year proven re-offending rate.

The bulletin is produced and handled by the Ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons: Ministry of Justice Secretary of State, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State - Minister for Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation, Minister of State for Civil Justice (Lords Minister), Permanent Secretary, Director General of Strategy and Change, 7 Policy Advisers for reducing re-offending and rehabilitation policy, and 2 special advisors, 3 press officers, and 5 private secretaries.

Introduction

The Justice Data Lab has been launched as a pilot for one year from April 2013. During this year, a small team from Analytical Services within the Ministry of Justice will support organisations that provide offender services by allowing them easy access to aggregate re-offending data, specific to the group of people they have worked with. This will support organisations in understanding their effectiveness at reducing re-offending.

The service model involves organisations sending the Justice Data Lab team details of the offenders they have worked with along with information about the specific intervention they have delivered. The Data Lab team then matches these offenders to MoJ’s central datasets and returns the re-offending rate of this particular cohort, alongside that of a control group of offenders with very similar characteristics in order to better identify the impact of the organisation’s work.

There are two publication types:

• A summary of the findings of the Justice Data Lab pilot to date (2 April to 31 October 2013).

• Tailored reports about the re-offending outcomes of services or interventions delivered by each of the organisations who have requested information through the Justice Data Lab pilot. Each report is an Official Statistic and will show the results of the re-offending analysis for the particular service or intervention delivered by the organisation who delivered it.

Main findings to date

9 To date, the Justice Data Lab has received 58 requests for re-offending information and has produced 7 reports which were published last month. A further 23 are now complete and ready for publication, bringing the total of completed reports to 30. To date, there have been 9 requests that could not be processed as the minimum criteria for analyses through the Data Lab had not been met. The remaining requests are currently in progress and will be published in future monthly releases of these statistics.

Of the 23 reports being published this month:

19 reports are regional analyses of the NOMS Co-Financing Organisation (NOMS CFO) project, which aims to help offenders access mainstream services with the aim of gaining skills and moving them into employment. The initiative is funded in partnership with the European Social Fund and is delivered regionally through a number of different suppliers; these include probation trusts and private companies such as Serco, A4E, and Pertemps People Development Group. There are 2 reports presented for each region where the programme was started by individuals in 2010; the first report for each region covers individuals who started the programme in custody, and the second report covers those who started whilst in the community.

Of these 19 reports:

• All the programmes which started in the community, with the exception of the North East, led to a reduction in the one year proven re-offending rate.
• There were inconclusive findings for the programmes which started in custody.

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There were four inconclusive results which looked at programmes delivered by Safe Ground, the Pre-School Learning Alliance in YOI Stoke, Riverside ECHG, and St Helens Integrated Offender Management (IOM). Reasons for an inconclusive result include; the sample of individuals provided by the organisation was too small to detect a statistically significant change in behaviour; or that the service or programme genuinely does not affect re-offending behaviour. However, it is very difficult to differentiate between these reasons in the analysis, so the organisations are recommended to submit larger samples of data when it becomes available. Detailed discussion of results and interpretation is available in the individual reports.

The bulletin is produced and handled by the Ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons: Ministry of Justice Secretary of State, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Permanent Secretary, Policy Advisers for reducing re-offending, Policy Advisors for the Transforming Rehabilitation Programme, and relevant Press Officers and Special Advisers.