This briefing sets out the case for amending Section 9A of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 to enable the delivery of evidence-based harm reduction interventions for people who smoke crack cocaine.

This note summarises the key reflections from a roundtable held at the Ministry of Justice, bringing together the MoJ, the Youth Justice Board, the Youth Custody Service and CJI to explore Scotland's approach to reducing children's involvement in custody and the learning that may be relevant for England and Wales.

This briefing sets out our policy position on the role of Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDACs) within current children’s social care and family justice reform. It focuses on the relationship between FDAC and the Family Help within the Families First Partnership programme and identifies seven policy priorities that will enable these to work effectively alongside eachother.

This briefing explores how youth justice in England and Wales can go beyond recent progress in reducing children entering court, drawing on lessons from New Zealand to show how removing the requirement to admit guilt could widen access to diversion.

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.