Our expertise sits at the intersection of four interconnected systems.

Justice Employability Health & Social Care Education
01

Justice.

Custody · Community · Rehabilitation

We work with organisations across the full spectrum of the justice system — from custodial settings to community-based support — helping them to design, develop, and win contracts for services that genuinely support rehabilitation, resettlement, and desistance.

Our experience includes

  • Community resettlement support services
  • Prison education services
  • Prison Operator Frameworks
  • Lived experience projects in custodial settings and probation environments
  • Community based recovery services
02

Employability.

DWP · Specialist · Personalised

We work with organisations to design and develop employment support programmes that connect local communities to local economies. We have particular expertise in government-funded employment programmes and specialist employment support for people who need more intensive, personalised help.

Our experience includes

  • Flagship DWP programmes e.g. Jobs and Careers Pilot, Jobs Guarantee, Connect to Work, Restart
  • Nesta innovation projects for workers in precarious sectors
  • Intensive Personalised Employment Services (IPS)
  • NHS Talking Therapies (formerly known as IAPT)
  • Refugee employment support programmes
04

Education & skills.

Schools · Skills · Enterprise

We work with organisations in the UK and internationally to design and deliver an inclusive, alternative version of mainstream education for young people aged 4 to 16, 16-24 and adults.

Our experience includes

  • Alternative education offers to Pupil Referral Units
  • Further education - Adult Skills Fund, SWAPs, Apprenticeships, Traineeships, National Careers Service
  • Teacher recruitment, supporting school attendance initiatives through a whole-system delivery model
  • Workforce development
03

Health & Social Care.

Continuity · Compassion · Community

We work with organisations to design community pathways, services and strategies that move young people and adults from crisis to stability, from frailty to independence, from being passive to being empowered.

Our experience includes

  • Looked after children and complex family support services
  • Mental health crisis and wellbeing services
  • Peer support programmes
  • Independent living services
  • Carers support

Working at the intersection of these systems? That's where we live.

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