On behalf of NAPA, Andrew Bridges was recently invited to address a House of Commons Justice Select Committee on the broad subject of “offender accommodation”.    This took place on Tuesday 9 th  December and involved describing, from a ‘provider’s perspective’ what ‘CAS1’ meant, both in principle and in practice. The MPs’ main interest was unsurprisingly in homelessness as an issue for newly released prisoners, but were impressed that, in the current inspection programme, AP

It's always good to hear when an Associate finds one of our events both interesting and productive and Clare Maguire, CEO of Progress to Change, wrote up her reflections following a recent meeting of all NAPA IAP associates, which took place in London on 27th November. The varied and full programme included updates and presentations from a range of speakers & was well received - together with the valuable opportunity for face to face discussion and information exchange betwee