Rowing is proving to be a highly effective engagement tool with young people at risk of offending - thanks to London Youth Rowing’s Life Skills programme.

Pete Bell, founder of football-based offender mentoring programme Step Out Stay Out, reveals what he learned from the innovative Football Works Festival held inside a Dutch jail.

Sport and physical activity are at the heart of an innovative project aimed at helping rehabilitate young people held at Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent. 

Read how HFE's partnership with the Prisoners' Education Trust is offering incarcerated offenders a priceless chance of rehabilitation and employment in the health and fitness industry.

The 'Alternative Lives’ prison programme delivered by Exeter City, Plymouth Argyle and Cardiff City FC community trusts has hugely benefited participants, coaches and prison staff.

When it comes to working with people caught up in crime, ‘collaboration’ and ‘multi-agency approach’ are modern buzz words. No-one embodies those philosophies better than the Met's PC Jason Hill.

The Alliance of Sport is delighted to see recognition in the Youth Justice Board’s 2019-20 business plan of the role sport plays in supporting young people in the criminal justice system. 

The charity Crimestoppers is rapidly expanding its Fearless programme in Wales to encourage young people to report crime – and they are using sport as a vehicle to get the message across.

The Burngreave area of Sheffield may be top and bottom of all the “wrong lists” but it has recently become a showcase for the power of sport to empower and unite local communities.

The outstanding work of Positive Futures in using sport as a tool to reduce crime is expanding across south-east Wales, with new partnerships and collaborations boosting their impact.