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:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab

Key findings this quarter

Two requests are being published this quarter: The Thinking Skills Programme (2010-2019), and Lancashire Women – second request (2015-2021).

The Thinking Skills Programme (2010 – 2019)

There are two Thinking Skills Programme (TSP) reports which evaluate (a) the impact on reoffending behaviour, and (b) the impact on prison misconduct, for individuals who participated in the TSP. The TSP is an accredited offending behaviour programme designed and delivered by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS).

Impact evaluation of prison-based TSP on reoffending

The reoffending study involved a treatment group of 20,293 adults (18,555 males, 1,738 females) who participated in the TSP in custody between 2010 and 2019. Proven reoffending was measured over a two-year period from the point of release from custody.

Over a two-year period from release, men who participated in the TSP were less likely to reoffend, reoffended less frequently, and took longer to reoffend, compared to similar males who did not participate in the TSP. These results were statistically significant and the effect sizes were very small.

Results indicated that over a two-year period following release, females who participated in the TSP reoffended less frequently, compared to similar females who did not participate in the TSP. These results were statistically significant with very small effect sizes.

Impact evaluation of the TSP on prison misconduct

The prison misconduct study involved a treatment group of 13,891 adults (12,938 males, and 953 females) who participated in the TSP between 2011 and 2019.

The male headline analysis results showed that over a 6-month period after starting the TSP those who had participated were less likely to receive an adjudication compared to males who did not participate in the TSP and received an adjudication less frequently. These results had very small effect sizes and were statistically significant.

The female headline analyses showed that over a 6-month period after starting the TSP females who had participated in the TSP received any form of adjudication less frequently compared to those who did not participate in the TSP. This result had a very small effect size and was statistically significant.

Lancashire Women – Second request (2015-2021)

Lancashire Women support women involved, or at risk of involvement, in the criminal justice system. The gender specific organisation offers support around societal stigmas, housing, emotional wellbeing, education, employment, and family and relationships. This is the second JDL evaluation for Lancashire Women, looking at programme participants between 2015 and 2021.

The overall results show that those who took part in the Lancashire Women were less likely to reoffend, reoffended less frequently and took longer to reoffend than those who did not take part. These results were statistically significant.

Justice Data Lab service: available reoffending data

The Justice Data Lab team have brought in reoffending data for the second 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 June 2021, in addition to during the years 2002 to 2020.

Pre-release access

The bulletins are 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, Deputy Head of News, 1 Director General, 6 press officers, 18 policy officials, and 5 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 following guidance:

http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab

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.

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 Justice 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 three publication types:

• A summary of the findings of the Justice Data Lab pilot to date (2nd April 2013 to 31st March 2014).
• 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.
• This month the Justice Data Lab findings to date are also presented in a separate file. This file contains all findings described in the summary document in the form of tables, organised by intervention type. This is intended to be a more accessible version of all of our findings to date.

Note to users

In future, the “Summary of findings to date” will contain only findings being published within the reporting round. All findings to date will continue to be published in the more accessible tables format. We welcome any feedback on this change, or on the Justice Data Lab Statistics more generally.

For further information about the Justice Data Lab, please refer to the http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">following guidance

Main findings to date

To date, the Justice Data Lab has received 82 requests for re-offending information, including 57 reports which have already been published. A further 2 are now complete and ready for publication, bringing the total of completed reports to 59.

To date, there have been 13 requests that could not be processed as the minimum criteria for analyses through the Data Lab had not been met, and one further request that was withdrawn by the submitting organisation. The remaining requests will be published in future monthly releases of these statistics.

Of the 2 reports being published this month:

• One report looks at the effectiveness of Only Connect. This analysis shows that the impact of this intervention on re-offending is currently inconclusive.
• One report looks at the effectiveness of the Roundabout programme. This analysis shows that the impact of this intervention on re-offending is also currently inconclusive.

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.

Reminder about the Justice Data Lab Service

In March 2014 we announced that the Justice Data Lab will continue to be piloted for another year. We are keen that the Justice Data Lab service continues to improve and, following feedback from users and internal consideration on our processes, we have specified a number of improvements that we intend to bring into the service over the next year. These improvements, as well as recommendations for users of the service are discussed in detail in the document “Justice Data Lab; The pilot year” which was published alongside the summary statistics for March 2014.

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, Director of Sentencing and Rehabilitation Policy unit, relevant Policy Advisers for reducing re-offending (two person

Introduction

The Justice Data Lab was established in April 2013. Participating organisations supply the Justice Data Lab with details of the offenders they have worked with and information about the services they have provided. The Justice Data Lab team matches these individuals to the re-offending datasets held within the Ministry of Justice and uses statistical modeling techniques to generate a matched control group of individuals with very similar characteristics; including demographic, criminal history and employment and benefit history.

As standard, the Justice Data Lab supplies aggregate one-year proven re-offending rates for that group, and a matched control group of similar offenders. The re-offending rates for the organisation’s group and the matched control group are compared using statistical testing to assess the impact of the organisation’s work on reducing re-offending. We also include the frequency of proven re-offending over the one year as standard following feedback from users.

There are three publication types:

• A summary of the findings of the Justice Data Lab pilot to date (2nd April 2013 to 28th February 2014).

• 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.

• This month the Justice Data Lab team have also produced a document reflecting on the successes and challenges of the pilot, called “Justice Data Lab; The pilot year”. This document shares learning from the experience of running the pilot, details the future of the Justice Data Lab and demonstrates the commitment to continual improvement in the Justice Data Lab service.

For further information about the Justice Data Lab, please refer to the following guidance: http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab

Update on the Justice Data Lab Service

We are pleased to announce that the Justice Data Lab will continue to be piloted for another year. The service will continue to be free at the point of use, and the same service model will continue to operate, as detailed in our guidance. Following feedback from users, we are hoping to bring in the following improvements to the service:

• improving the Data Upload Template with further questions about referral routes to the organisation, and where the intervention or programme was received. We will release an updated version of our Data Upload Template over the next few weeks alongside updates to our guidance documents.

• providing additional metrics of re-offending in particular looking at measures of severity

• improving our underlying data, including bringing Offender Assessment (OASys) information into analyses

• taking account of area in our analysis where possible

• within a request, giving the re-offending outcomes by different demographic profiles where possible

• providing power calculations to indicate necessary sample sizes for results which are inconclusive.

These improvements are discussed in more detail in the document “Justice Data Lab; the pilot year”

Main findings to date

To date, the Justice Data Lab has received 80 requests for re-offending information, including 55 reports which have already been published. A further 2 are now complete and ready for publication, bringing the total of completed reports to 57.

To date, there have been 12 requests that could not be processed as the minimum criteria for analyses through the Data Lab had not been met, and one further request that was withdrawn by the submitting organisation. The remaining requests will be published in future monthly releases of these statistics.

Of the 2 reports being published this month:

• One report looks at the effectiveness of The Footprints Project. This analysis shows that the impact of this intervention on re-offending is currently inconclusive.

• One report looks at the effectiveness of the Family Man programme run by Safe Ground. This analysis includes offenders from the two previous Safe Ground requests published in October and November 2013. This analysis shows that the impact of this intervention on re-offending is currently inconclusive.

The bulletin is produced and handled by the Ministry’s analytical professio

Key findings this month

The request is the first of a two-part study for the Community Interest Company GOALS UK, assessing the impact on young people of initial contact or light-touch support. The second part will analyse a larger group, the majority of whom will have completed a GOALS course, unlike this initial cohort.

The first analysis indicates an inconclusive result in the one-year proven re-offending rate.

Update on the Justice Data Lab service

The Justice Data Lab team have now brought the fourth quarter of 2013 re-offending data into the service. It is now possible for an organisation to submit information on the individuals it was working with during 2013, in addition to the years 2002 to 2012.

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, relevant Policy Advisers for reducing re-offending and rehabilitation policy, and relevant special advisors, press officers, and private secretaries.

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

For further information read the http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">Justice Data Lab guidance.

The Justice Data Lab has been launched as a pilot from April 2013. During this pilot, 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 reoffending 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 Justice Data Lab team then matches these offenders to MoJ’s central datasets and returns the reoffending 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 three publication types:

• A summary document of the requests received to date and the findings of the Justice Data Lab pilot for this month (1 April 2014 to 30 April 2014).
• Tailored reports about the reoffending 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.
• All of the Justice Data Lab findings to date are presented in a separate file. This file contains all findings described in the summary document in the form of tables, organised by intervention type. This is intended to be a more accessible version of all of our findings to date.

Note to users

From this month, the summary document will contain only findings being published within the month’s reporting round. All findings to date will continue to be published in the more accessible format.

We welcome any feedback on this change, or on the Justice Data Lab Statistics more generally.

Read further information about the http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">Justice Data Lab

Main findings to date

To date, the Justice Data Lab has received 85 requests for re-offending information, including 59 reports which have already been published. A further 2 are now complete and ready for publication, bringing the total of completed reports to 61.

To date, there have been 16 requests that could not be processed as the minimum criteria for analyses through the Data Lab had not been met, and one further request that was withdrawn by the submitting organisation. The remaining requests will be published in future monthly releases of these statistics.

Of the 2 reports being published this month:

• One report looks at the effectiveness of receiving yoga and mediation materials from The Prison Phoenix Trust. This analysis shows that the impact of this intervention on re-offending is currently inconclusive.
• One report looks at the effectiveness of the Time for Families relationship course. This analysis shows that the impact of this intervention on reoffending is also currently inconclusive.

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 reoffending 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.

Reminder about the Justice Data Lab Service

In March 2014 we announced that the Justice Data Lab will continue to be piloted for another year. We are keen that the Justice Data Lab service continues to improve and, following feedback from users and internal consideration on our processes, we have specified a number of improvements that we intend to bring into the service over the next year. These improvements, as well as recommendations for users of the service are discussed in detail in the document ‘Justice Data Lab; The pilot year’ which was published alongside the summary statistics for March 2014.

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, Director of Sentencing and Rehabilitation Policy unit, relevant Policy Advisers for reducing re-offending (two persons in total), Pol

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

Three requests are being published this quarter: The Amber Foundation Programme, Forward Trust’s Alcohol Dependence Treatment Programme and KeepOut’s rehabilitation programme. Also published are experimental statistics that look at employment and benefit outcomes for a test case, the Prisoners’ Education Trust.

The Amber Foundation

The Amber Foundation aims to provide a safe and nurturing environment for young homeless people with complex needs at three community based residential centres located in Devon, Wiltshire and Surrey as well as providing 24-hour support across the UK.

The overall results show that those who received the intervention had a lower rate of reoffending than those who did not. More people would need to be available for analysis in order to determine the direction of the difference in the frequency of proven reoffences during the one year after release.

Forward Trust’s Alcohol Dependence Treatment Programme

Forward Trust’s Alcohol Dependence Treatment Programme is an intensive six-week, twelve-step programme, which aims to reduce reoffending and improve outcomes for participants.

The overall results show that more people would need to be available for analysis in order to determine the way in which the programme affects a person’s reoffending behaviour, but this should not be taken to mean that the programme fails to affect it.

KeepOut

KeepOut is a crime diversion scheme which works with offenders in custody. Offenders are trained to run intervention programmes with young people who are already involved in criminal activity or are at risk of becoming so. The aims are both to prevent the young people from committing crimes, and to rehabilitate offenders in custody, with the Data Lab analysis relating to the impact on offenders in custody only.

The overall results show that more people would need to be available for analysis in order to determine the direction of the difference in the number of people who commit a proven reoffence during one year after release, but this should not be taken to mean that the programme fails to affect it.

Experimental statistics: Employment and benefits outcomes test case

New measures that investigates employment and benefit outcomes have been explored for the first time in the JDL, using information from DWP and HMRC as well as data from the Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET) charity, which provides grants for distance learning and creative projects for prisoners.

Key results from this report indicate that those who participated in the programme were more likely to be employed than those who did not participate and spent more time in employment overall in the one-year period following release from prison. They also spent less time receiving out-of-work benefits.

Feedback on these experimental statistics

This report is the first test case exploring employment and benefit outcomes of offenders who have participated in an intervention programme. We are seeking feedback, which will be used to shape our ongoing work in this area.

Justice Data Lab service: available reoffending data

The Justice Data Lab team have brought in reoffending data for the first quarter of 2016 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 2016, in addition to during the years 2002 to 2015.

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 and Probation, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State - Minister for Offender Health and female offenders, Permanent Secretary, Director General of Offender Reform and Commissioning Group, Director of Communication and Information, Director of Analytical Services, Head and Deputy Head of News, Chief Press Officer, 15 Policy and Analytical Advisers for reducing

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.

Key findings this quarter

One request is being published this quarter. The request is for The St Giles Trust Peer Advisor Programme, a mentoring intervention that trains offenders and non-offenders as advisors, teaching them to assist their peers in accessing support services that will help those peers to address their own needs. It aims to increase support to offenders and to give qualifications and mentoring experience to advisors as a route into employment.

The results show that participants who reoffended did so later than non-participants. More participants would need to be available for analysis in order to determine the way in which the programme affects the rate and frequency of reoffending, but this should not be taken to mean that the programme fails to affect it.

Following the JDL response to a peer review of the established JDL methodology published in March 2016, the team have investigated a number of aspects of the methodology to identify potential enhancements. These investigations and findings have been summarised for publication. The exercise has been beneficial to establish that the existing methodology is robust and fit for purpose, with no substantial changes required.

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 and Probation, Permanent Secretary, Director General of Prisons, Offender and Youth Justice Policy, Chief Financial Officer, Director of Communication and Information, 9 Policy and Analytical Advisers for reducing re-offending and rehabilitation policy, 2 special advisor, 3 press officers, and 5 private secretaries.

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 http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">guidance

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

Key findings this quarter

Two reports are being published this quarter: Prisoners Education Trust (4th analysis) and Resolve accredited programme.

Note: Following the publication of the original impact evaluation for the Resolve accredited programme detailed below, a supplementary appendix including additional analysis and descriptive statistics was published in Justice Data Lab statistics: October 2021.

Prisoners’ Education Trust (4th analysis)

Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET) funds prisoners to study courses via distance learning in subjects and at levels that are not generally available through mainstream education.

This analysis looked at the employment outcomes and reoffending behaviour of 9,041 adults who received grants for distance learning through Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET) schemes between 2001 and 2017. This analysis is a follow up of previous PET analyses which looked at the reoffending behaviour and employment outcomes of a smaller group of people.

The overall results show that those who received PET grants were less likely to reoffend in the year after their release from prison and more likely to be employed, compared with a group of similar offenders who did not receive these grants.

Resolve accredited programme

Resolve is a moderate intensity accredited programme designed and delivered by HMPPS. The prison-based programme is a cognitive-behavioural therapy-informed offending behaviour programme, which aims to improve outcomes related to violence in adult males who are of a medium risk of reoffending.

The analysis looked at the reoffending behaviour of 2,509 adult males who participated in the Resolve custody programme at some point between 2011 and 2018 and who were released from prison between 2011 and 2018. It covers one and two-year general and violent reoffending measures.

The headline results for one-year proven general reoffending (includes all reoffending) show that those who took part in the programme in England and Wales were less likely to reoffend, reoffended less frequently and took longer to reoffend than those how did not take part. The headline results for two-year proven general reoffending show that those who took part were less likely to reoffend, reoffended less frequently and took longer to reoffend that those how did not take part. These results were statistically significant.

For proven violent reoffences (a subset of general reoffending), the headline one and two-year results did not show that the programme had a statistically significant effect on a person’s reoffending behaviour, but this should not be taken to mean it fails to have an effect.

Further analyses were also conducted to examine the specific effects of Resolve on relevant sub-groups for proven general reoffending and violent reoffending. Among the one-year violent sub-analyses, those who only participated in Resolve were significantly less likely to reoffend violently and reoffended violently less frequently than those who did not take part. There were no statistically significant sub-analyses for the two-year violent measures.

Justice Data Lab service: available reoffending data

Organisation can submit information on the individuals they were working with between 2002 and the end of March 2018. 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 and Probation, Permanent Secretary, Director General of Policy and Strategy Group, Director General for Prisons, Director General for Probation, Chief Financial Officer, Head of News, 2 Chief Press Officers, 11 policy and analytical advisers for reducing reoffending and rehabilitation policy, special advisors, 4 press officers, and 6 private secretaries.

Key findings this month

One request is being published this month:

The request is for an employment programme run by the National Offender Management Service (Co-Financing Organisation) whose providers work with offenders in prison and the community, many of whom are considered hard to help, to help them access mainstream services with the aim of gaining skills and employment. This analysis focuses on those who started the programme between March 2011 and December 2012 in custody, on leaving custody or in the community.

• The JDL analyses, which compare each group separately to a matched control group of those who did not take part in the programme, indicate that there is currently insufficient evidence at this stage to draw a conclusion about the impact of the employment programme on the 1-year proven reoffending rate, irrelevant of whether the programme took place in prison or not. However, for those who took part on leaving custody there was a significant reduction in the frequency of reoffending, and there was a significant reduction in the time to first reoffence for those who took part either in or on leaving custody.

• There were also 3 bespoke analyses comparing each group to each of the others in turn and assessing the effectiveness of the programme in each setting. Care needs to be taken with these comparisons as they are not comparisons between matched treatment and control groups and differences are likely to reflect the different characteristics of each group. The differences in the reoffending rate and frequency of reoffending for offenders who took part in the employment programme on leaving custody and those who took part in the community were not significant. However, both groups had a significantly lower reoffending rate and frequency of reoffending than those who took part in custody.

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 reoffending and rehabilitation policy, and 2 special advisors, 3 press officers, and 5 private secretaries.

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 http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">guidance.

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 http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">guidance.

Key findings this quarter

Two requests are being published this quarter: Southwark’s Integrated Offender Management (IOM) Programme and The Clink Restaurant Training Programme (second request).

Southwark Integrated Offender Management Programme

Southwark’s Integrated Offender Management (IOM) programme works with offenders in custody and the community using a holistic approach, addressing their needs in the areas of housing, accessing benefit entitlements, education, employment, training and well-being.

The overall results show that more people would need to have completed the programme and be available for analysis in order to determine the way in which the programme affects a person’s reoffending behaviour. This should not be taken to mean that the programme fails to affect it.

The Clink

The other request was for a second analysis of The Clink Restaurant Training Programme. This programme provides vocational training in catering, front of house and cleaning aimed at giving prisoners skills and qualifications which will help them secure employment on release, with the intention that this will reduce the rate of reoffending.

The headline results show that those who participated in the programme had a lower frequency of reoffending than those who did not participate. More people would be needed to establish the impact of the programme on reoffending frequency and time to first reoffence, but this should not be taken to mean that the programme fails to affect it.

Justice Data Lab service: available reoffending data

The Justice Data Lab team have brought in reoffending data for the first quarter of 2016 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 2016, in addition to during the years 2002 to 2014.

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 and Probation, Permanent Secretary, Director General of Offender Reform and Commissioning Group, Chief Financial Officer, Director of Communication and Information, Head and Deputy Head of News, Chief Press Officer, 7 Policy and Analytical Advisers for reducing reoffending and rehabilitation policy, special advisors, 2 press officers, and 6 private secretaries.

The report is released by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) 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: http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab

Key findings this month

One request is being published this month. The request is being published for Women’s centres (information was supplied by 39 Women’s centres) throughout England, who provide a range of services and opportunities to women in the community, including those that have an offending history across the UK. This analysis indicates that there is a statistically significant reduction in the 1 year proven re-offending rate.

Update on the Justice Data Lab service

The Justice Data Lab team have now brought the first quarter of 2013 re-offending data 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 2013, in addition to during the years 2002 to 2012.

The bulletin is produced and handled by MOJ’s analytical professionals and production staff. Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons: MOJ Secretary of State, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Permanent Secretary, Director of Sentencing and Rehabilitation Policy unit, relevant policy advisers for reducing re-offending and women’s policy (3 persons in total), policy advisors for the Transforming Rehabilitation Programme, and relevant press officers and special advisers.

Key findings this quarter

Two requests are being published this quarter: HMPPS Co-Financing Organisation (CFO) Employability Programme and Life Cycle UK’s “Bike Back” programme.

HMPPS Co-Financing Organisation

CFO Employability Programme works with offenders in prison and the community, to help them access mainstream services, with the aim of gaining skills and employment and the intention to reduce reoffending.

The headline results show that those who received support in the community had a lower frequency of reoffending and took longer to reoffend that those who did not receive support from CFO. More people would be needed to establish the impact of prison and TTG support on reoffending behaviours.

Life Cycle UK

The second request was for Life Cycle UK’s “Bike Back” programme, which aims to improve offenders’ workplace abilities and confidence by teaching them cycle mechanic skills through refurbishment of unwanted and broken bicycles.

The overall results show that more people would need to have completed the programme and be available for analysis. In order to determine the way in which the programme affects a person’s reoffending behaviour, but this should not be taken to mean that the programme fails to affect it.

Update on the Justice Data Lab service

The Justice Data Lab team have now brought all the 2015 re-offending data 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 December 2015, in addition to during the years 2002 to 2014.

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 and Probation, Permanent Secretary, Director General of Offender Reform and Commissioning Group, Chief Financial Officer, Director of Communication and Information, 6 Policy and Analytical Advisers for reducing re-offending and rehabilitation policy, 2 special advisors, 3 press officers, and 5 private secretaries.

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 http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">guidance

Key findings this month

One request is being published this month. The request is for Switchback’s rehabilitation programme. Switchback is a London-based through-the-gate rehabilitation programme that aims to support young adult males stick to their commitment to live life differently after release from prison.

The overall results were not statistically significant and more people would need to become eligible for analysis in order to determine the direction in which the intervention affects the 1 year proven reoffending rate, the frequency of re-offending and the time taken to re-offend, but this should not be taken to mean that the programme fails to affect it.

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 and Probation, Permanent Secretary, Director General of Criminal and Justice, Chief Financial Officer, 8 Policy and Analytical Advisers for reducing re-offending and rehabilitation policy, 2 special advisors, 2 press officers and 3 private secretaries.

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 http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">guidance. http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab

Key findings this month

One request is being published this month and a report which responds to a peer review of the Justice Data Lab (JDL) methodology:

The request is for the Therapeutic Communities programme run by the Phoenix Futures group. This prison-based programme offers self-help communities that assist to rebuild the lives of those with substance misuse issues. This analysis indicates that there is currently insufficient evidence at this stage to draw a conclusion about the impact of completing the Therapeutic Communities (TC) programme run by Phoenix Futures on the 1 year proven reoffending rate.

The methodology review report is a response to a peer review of the JDL methodology that was put in place at the start of the JDL service. The JDL have committed to investigate several areas to assess how they may enhance the service provided. These areas include comparing the impact of using alternative statistical techniques, assessing how the JDL model can be refined, analysing additional sensitivity analyses and considering data retention practices.

Update on the Justice Data Lab service

The Justice Data Lab team have now brought the first quarter of 2014 reoffending data 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 2014, in addition to during the years 2002 to 2013.

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, relevant Policy Advisers for reducing re-offending and rehabilitation policy, and relevant special advisors, press officers, and private secretaries.

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 http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">guidance.

This report presents the latest findings from the Justice Data Lab, and summarises the requests for reoffending information from 2 April 2013 to 31 May 2015.

For further information about the Justice Data Lab, please refer to the following guidance: http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab

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

Update on the Justice Data Lab service

The Justice Data Lab team have now brought the first quarter of 2013 reoffending data 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 June 2013, in addition to during the years 2002 to 2012.

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:

MOJ Secretary of State for Justice, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of Prisons, Probation and Rehabilitation, Minister of State for Justice, Minister of State for Justice (Lords Minister), Permanent Secretary, Director General of Transforming Justice, Director of Sentencing and Rehabilitation Policy unit, Deputy Director of Offender Management Analytical Services relevant policy advisers for reducing reoffending (3 persons in total), policy advisors for the Transforming Rehabilitation Programme, and relevant press officers (3 persons in total), private secretaries (5 persons in total) and 1 special adviser.

Key findings this month

One request is being published this month:

The request is for the charity Working Chance, who support female offenders into paid and voluntary work with mainstream employers. This analysis focuses on those who found employment after receiving the recruitment service provided by Working Chance. This analysis indicates that there is currently insufficient evidence at this stage to draw a conclusion about the impact of finding employment through the recruitment service offered by Working Chance has on the 1 year proven reoffending rate. However, there was a statistically significant improvement in the frequency of reoffending.

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 (MOJ) 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, relevant Policy Advisers for reducing re-offending and rehabilitation policy, and relevant special advisors, press officers, and private secretaries.

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

For further information about the Justice Data Lab, please refer to the http://www.justice.gov.uk/justice-data-lab">guidance.