MPs to explore alternatives to custody in rehabilitation inquiry

Tuesday, 19 May at 2.30pm Wilson Room, Portcullis House

The Justice Committee will explore alternatives to custody for offenders during the fourth evidence session of the second part of its inquiry intorehabilitation and resettlement: ending the cycle of reoffending.

During the first panel, the cross-party committee, chaired by Labour MP Andy Slaughter, will question Serco about the Electronic Monitoring Service, how it operates and how it is preparing for the Government's expansion of this service.

MPs will then hear from One Small Thing who run Hope Street, a residential women's centre on how it works to promote rehabilitation, the barriers they face, and how residential alternatives to custody should work.

The Committee's first report of this inquiry focusing on rehabilitation in prisons, published last November, concluded prison overcrowding, staffing shortages and deteriorating infrastructure is having a ‘profound impact on the ability of prisons to deliver rehabilitation'.

Witnesses – Tuesday, 19 May             

Panel 1: 2.30pm 

• Antony King, Managing Director, Citizen Services, Serco

Panel 2: 3:30pm 

• Claire Hubberstey, Chief Executive, One Small Thing