Staffordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Ellis joined partners at a national event to unite criminal justice agencies and promote change.
The No Offence! annual Redemption and Justice Awards took place in Leicester last Thursday, 3 October.
The Commissioner attended with Staffordshire’s Deputy PCC Sue Arnold and joined Northamptonshire PCC Adam Simmonds in presenting the Innovation Award to Vision Housing.
Mr Ellis said: “There was a great diversity of ideas that came out of the evening about work by criminal justice organisations which is having a clear effect on people’s lives.
“We presented the Innovation Award for a project which saw an ex-prisoner start a social enterprise to rehouse prisoners once they’ve been released.
“Fifty-eight prisoners had been rehoused and every single one of them had stayed out of prison and not been involved in re-offending.
“The focus was on rehabilitation which is critical to our work to reduce crime and re-offending in Staffordshire.
“No Offence! has a really important vision of bringing criminal justice organisations together in one place to effect positive change. We need to look at how we can apply these ideas in Staffordshire.”
No Offence! is an award-winning Community Interest Company with a vision ‘to be the leading cross sector criminal justice community in the world’. For more details visit www.no-offence.org
