Nacro reveals that employers across the country will struggle to justify requesting criminal record information at the initial application stage of a recruitment process, if they are to comply with the new laws which came into force on 25 May 2018.
In response to today’s government announcement that existing probation contracts will be cut short and further changes will be made to the system. See what Nacro Chief Executive Jacob Tas has to say.
Nacro welcomes the Education Select Committee’s report on alternative provision published today. See. the full response here.
Nacro has won a silver medal for a garden we made at the RHS Tatton Flower Show, which we enter each year. Gardener Andy Walker of Walker Landscape & Design designed the garden and received help from Nacro Manchester staff and service users.
We welcome the Secretary of State’s speech earlier today on his department’s further plans to make prisons places of meaningful rehabilitation. See the statement here.
Nacro has been recognised with the award of 2018 National Union of Students (NUS) People award for introducing Student Unions across all our education centres.
Nacro welcomes the Department for Education’s (DfE) amended disqualification arrangements, published on 2 July 2018.
See Nacro Chief Executive, Jacob Tas response to the launch of the MoJ Female Offender Strategy.
See Nacro Chief Executive, Jacob Tas response to the Justice Committee report on Transforming Rehabilitation.
Joint research from Nacro and youth homelessness charity, Centrepoint, call for improved support for young people leaving custody accessing housing.
