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 briefing offers strategies to enable better collaboration between police forces and women’s centres, and improve outcomes for women in contact with the justice system.
This report presents compiled data shared by the 14 FDACs in England for the period 1 October to 31 December 2025, to offer a live picture of the circumstances facing families in FDAC, the work that is done to support them and the outcomes that have been achieved.
This report surveys New Zealand's range of problem-solving courts and outlines how their best-practice features are being integrated into 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).
This evaluation seeks to understand the work of CASS+, an advice and support service in Devon and Cornwall, to support litigants in person in private family law cases.
This briefing aims to support FDAC practitioners and local authority colleagues in decision-making about which families are deemed eligible for and referred to FDAC.
