This evidence and practice briefing draws on real-world examples to explore how partnerships between police and women’s centres can effectively work in practice and how challenges, such as clashing cultures and differing expectations and approaches to working with women, can be overcome. 

New Zealand has a range of problem-solving courts which address common drivers of offending, such as substance use, mental health, homelessness and family violence. This report surverys these and reviews the new model for the District Court of New Zealand, Te Ao Mārama, which seeks to integrate the best practice features from these problem-solving courts into the mainstream courts. 

This briefing proposes that the Government takes action to cut crime, reduce demand and improve outcomes for victims by driving forward the use of evidence-led Out of Court Resolutions (OOCRs) and adopting a comprehensive, simplified national framework for OOCRs. It offers an approach that would simplify current practice, provide greater consistency across forces, improve fairness, reduce reoffending and remove unnecessary demand from the courts…

This evaluation seeks to understand the work of CASS+ to support litigants in person in private family law cases in five courts in Devon and Cornwall. By speaking to stakeholders from the judiciary and the courts service and looking at data collected by the service on its clients, this evaluation aims to understand the problems the service seeks to address, the way it supports its clients and the impact it is having.

This evidence and practice briefing aims to support FDAC practitioners and local authority colleagues in decision-making about which families are deemed eligible for and referred to FDAC, in order to support in achieving consistency across FDAC services and ensure that referral decisions are evidence-based.

This guide provides an overview of problem-solving court practice in the United Kingdom for practitioners and policymakers working in or seeking to develop problem-solving courts. It provides information about different types of problem-solving court, including a description of each, a summary of the evidence on them and case studies from the UK on each.

With the Youth Endowment Fund, we've produced this guidance to support police forces – and the wider partnership – in navigating the complexity in ensuring that a child receives the most appropriate outcome following arrest by embedding robust and transparent decision-making, effective partnership working and evidence-based support.

This briefing aims to support practitioners seeking to develop or improve gender-specific pre-court diversion schemes by providing best practice principles for pre-court diversion for women.