Charity and Voluntary Sector
MoJ: A new service giving charities & voluntary organisations more information about what works to reduce re-offending has been launched recently. The Justice Data Lab will give voluntary & community sector (VCS) agencies access to high-quality re-offending data tailored to their needs. This will allow them to better understand the impact of their work & design more effective interventions.
Expert analysts at the Ministry of Justice will match data from organisations working with offenders with national records to produce re-offending rates for that group of individuals.
This will be compared with a control group to prove the effectiveness of a particular intervention. The innovative new service has been set up as part of the Transforming Rehabilitation agenda, which proposes a greater role for the VCS and private sector in tackling re-offending on a payment by results basis.