Our partnerships

We partner with a range of organisations, including His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service, to deliver innovative services to prisoners, people on probation, and their families.
Our Partnerships

We are committed to collaborative working with statutory and non-statutory partners. Our experience shows extensive benefits, including:

  • Maximising effective use of resources and providing value for money
  • Joining up provision and avoiding duplication
  • Sharing, embedding and mainstreaming best practice across criminal justice  services
  • Ensuring optimum outcomes for service users
Supporting Welsh Mothers

Case study: supporting Welsh mothers 

Pact and Change Grow Live (formerly Sova) partnered to devise and deliver the Visiting Mum service supporting Welsh women at HMP Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire. Cardiff University’s independent evaluation identified the service effectively improved wellbeing among mothers, including reducing the risk of self-harm, while also improving long-term outcomes for their children.  

Since 2020, with funding from Welsh Government and HMPPS, Visiting Mum has been commissioned to run from HMP Eastwood Park and HMP Styal in Cheshire - the two most common prisons for women from Wales. 

Our partners

Contracts and statutory grants

  • HMPPS
    • Family and Significant Other Services
    • Extended Community Mentoring (South West)
    • Prison education dynamic purchasing system
    • Prisoners' Families Helpline
  • NHS England - Families and Carers Patient and Public Voice (London)
  • MOPAC Mentoring Programmes

Subcontracts

  • Ixion / Shaw Trust
    • CFO3 West Midlands & South East
    • CFO Activity Hubs (West Midlands, East Midlands & East of England)
  • Seetec - Probation CRS - Emotional Wellbeing (Cheshire & Kent)
  • Ingeus
    • CFO Activity Hubs (North West)
    • Probation CRS - Family & Significant Others Services (Northumbria, West Yorkshire, Humberside, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, West Midlands, Stoke & Stafford, Warwickshire)
  • Nacro - Probation CRS - Family and Significant Others Services (Northamptonshire)
  • Oxleas - Family Link Worker, HMP Wandsworth

Specialist partnerships

  • Keyring - learning disabilities and autism
  • One Small Thing - trauma-informed justice
  • Recoop - older people with convictions
  • Restorative Engagement Forum - restorative practice
  • Spark2Life - black-led reducing reoffending
  • The Traveller Movement - Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community
  • Zahid Mubarak Trust - racial justice and fairness

Our subcontractors

  • Nepacs
  • Lincolnshire Action Trust
  • CDA Herts

Education & course development

  • Skills for Justice
  • University of Denver
  • Sheffield University
  • Queens University Belfast
  • ParentGym
  • Dr Lucy Baldwin
  • Barnados

Our approach to women’s justice stresses the importance of working with women in contact with the justice system in a holistic and rehabilitative way…Visiting Mum can be an invaluable service that keeps them in contact with the people they love.

Jane Hutt - Welsh Government, Minister for Social Justice

More about working with Pact

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Who we are

Find out more about who we are and what we do.
Commissioning Pact

Commissioning Pact

Pact delivers a broad range of contracted services both directly commissioned, or as a key supply chain provider.
Supply Chain Block

Supply chain opportunities

Pact is keen to champion the critical role of smaller, specialist providers in delivering contractual targets and positive service user outcomes.