Publications

This briefing aims to support practitioners seeking to develop or improve gender-specific pre-court diversion schemes. 

This briefing provides practice principles to improve the use of out of court resolutions for young adults aged 18-24.
 

The Centre's response to the Independent Sentencing Review.

This report presents compiled data shared by the 13 FDACs in England for the period 1 July to 30 September 2024, 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 presents compiled data shared by the 13 FDACs in England for the period 1 April to 30 June 2024, 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 financial benefits tool, developed by the Centre for Justice Innovation and Mutual Ventures on behalf of the Department of Education, is intended to support existing FDACs and the local authorities (LAs) they support, as well as LAs considering implementing an FDAC. The tool is designed to provide an estimate of the relative costs and financial benefits of a local FDAC service.

This paper is a summary of our financial analysis, ‘FDAC: The Case for Investment’, which is available in full here.

This report maps the existing alternatives to coercive sanctions for people found in possession of controlled drugs for personal use in Ireland. The report was commissioned and published by Strategic Implementation Group 5 (SIG-5), a subcommittee within the National Drugs Strategy structures, and produced by the Centre for Justice Innovation. 

This strategic policy paper sets out our ten-point plan to reform our criminal justice system. We call on the new Government to, first, protect the system from overloading and then fundamentally shift how our criminal justice system operates and put it on a path toward recovery.

This analysis, developed according to the Green Book guidance issued by HM Treasury, clearly demonstrates that the Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDAC) model provides value for money and generates significant savings to the family justice system (predominantly local authorities) in comparison to standard care proceedings. The analysis concludes that FDAC costs £18,000 per case and produces an average direct benefit saving per case of £74,068, hence making a compelling financial and economic case for investment in FDAC.