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About Safe Ground

Safe Ground works to reduce the risk of offending and reoffending based on a continually developing understanding of the origins and impact of crime and a commitment to empowering people to change.

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Article on relationships by Family Man Graduate Jason
May 8th, 2012
As you will know about Safe Ground we develop our programmes and our organisation with the input of the men in prison that we work… Read more»
Payment-by-results: Groundbreaking innovation or government gimmick?
May 8th, 2012
by David Binder Of all the Coalition’s new ideas regarding how to cut reoffending, and how to inspire foundational behavioural change in offenders, payment-by-results (PBR)… Read more»
Safe Ground and HMP Belmarsh feature in Inside Time
April 16th, 2012
Rachel Billington describes her experience ‘doing time’ with Safe Ground in February. A huge thank you to the Family Man team at Belmarsh, not to mention… Read more»
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Sector News

How acting helps prisoners stop acting out

More evidence on the value of theatre in prisons and the challenge on demonstrating its worth to policymakers and the public.

Source: The Guardian 02.05.12

David Cameron is wrong about ‘soft’ community sentences

Thought provoking piece on community sentences and desistance by one of our Symposium delegates, Vicki Helyar-Cardwell, Director of the Criminal Justice Alliance.

Source: The Guardian 28.03.12

An unlikely champion for the issue of parental imprisonment

Safe Ground was surprised but delighted to hear that Laura Kaeppeler, the newly crowned Miss America, is using her status to raise awareness of the problems faced by the 10 million American children who have experienced the incarceration of a parent.

Source: The Guardian 28.03.12

FM/FI Statistics
2011-2012

Courses delivered:29

Total graduates:382

Course
completion rate:76.7%

Qualifications awarded:1005

Students participating
in Education, Training
and Employment
pre-course:74.5%

Students participating
in Education, Training
and Employment
post-course:93.6%