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The State of the Sector report highlights significant challenges for voluntary organisations working in criminal justice, including funding instability and increased service demand.
The key findings illustrate the challenging environment within which the sector continues to operate. Funding remains a significant challenge, particularly the destabilising impact of short-term funding cycles. Organisations also reported increasing demand for their services, with service users presenting more complex needs.
Research · Observational claim · From Clinks — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 15
Clinks aims to increase understanding of the voluntary sector's role within the criminal justice system.
Our role remains to ensure that statutory bodies both understand and acknowledge this role, as well as supporting the sector to navigate the complexities of an ever-evolving system.
Strategic · Commitment statement · From Clinks — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 10
The voluntary sector plays an essential role in providing support within the prison and probation systems.
Given the longstanding instability apparent throughout both the prison and probation systems, the role of the voluntary sector as a guarantor of essential support is as important as ever.
Context · Observational claim · From Clinks — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 10
Clinks aims to increase and improve knowledge of voluntary organisations' roles among criminal justice system practitioners by 2025.
By 2025 we will increase and improve the knowledge and understanding of the role and value of voluntary organisations, especially small and specialist ones, among criminal justice system practitioners.
Strategic · Commitment statement · From Clinks — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 7
The Independent Review of Sentencing acknowledges the importance of the voluntary sector and recommends specific ways to fund and support it.
As we reflect on the year, the Independent Review of Sentencing has been published and its clear to see the influence our sector has had on its recommendations. We especially welcome the recognition of the sector’s importance to the review’s implementation, in making specific recommendations as to how to fund and support the sector, to best fulfil its role supporting people in the criminal justice system.
Policy · Observational claim · From Clinks — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 3
The voluntary sector in criminal justice has been advocating for evidence-based changes due to the crisis of overcrowded prisons.
The voluntary sector in criminal justice has been crying out for evidence-based changes to address the lack of opportunity for people in prison and under probation supervision, to get the support they need and deserve.
Policy · Observational claim · From Clinks — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 3
The King's Fund worked on five projects under its contract with DHSC and the University of York in 2024.
During 2024, we worked on five projects under the call-off contract that we have in partnership with the University of York, for rapid research to support DHSC’s policy needs.
Commissioning · Operational statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 74
The King's Fund contributed £1,397,000 to the Group Personal Pension Scheme in 2024.
The Fund contributed £1,397,000 (2023: £1,137,000) to the scheme.
Financial · Funding statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 73
The King's Fund contributed £64,000 to the NHS Pension Scheme in 2024.
In 2024 The Fund contributed £64,000 (2023: £69,000) to the scheme.
Financial · Funding statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 73
The King's Fund expects no further contributions to its pension scheme in 2025.
The King’s Fund expects no further contributions to be made to the Plan in the year ending 31 December 2025 due to the closure of the scheme to future accruals.
Financial · Funding statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 72
The King's Fund had no active members in the Staff Pension and Life Assurance Plan as of December 2024.
so as at 31 December 2024 there were no active members (2023: 12).
Operational · Observational claim · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 71
The King's Fund has a loan of £20 million from MetLife, repayable in May 2051.
A 30-year loan was taken out on 14 May 2021 to enhance the long-term value of The King’s Fund’s investments and has been invested in line with the strategic asset allocation. The loan is repayable in full at the end of the loan period in May 2051.
Financial · Observational claim · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 70
The King's Fund does not present a separate charity-only Cash Flow Statement due to exemptions in FRS 102.
The charity has taken advantage of the exemptions in FRS 102 from the requirements to present a charity-only Cash Flow Statement and certain disclosures about the charity’s financial instruments.
Financial · Policy statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 58
The King's Fund does not recognise a surplus in its defined benefit pension scheme as it is considered unrecoverable.
Where the scheme is determined to be in a surplus position, a surplus is recognised as an asset only to the extent that this can be recovered in future years through reductions in employer contributions or through a specific refund/reimbursement from the scheme, hence, at the moment, it is not recognised as it is considered that the surplus in the defined benefit pension scheme is not recoverable.
Financial · Policy statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 58
The King's Fund uses FRS 102 for accounting and reporting rather than the withdrawn Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice.
This departure has involved following Accounting and Reporting by charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014 rather than the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice effective from 1 April 2005, which has since been withdrawn.
Financial · Policy statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 57
The King's Fund has a reasonable expectation to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.
The Fund’s planning process... and that there are no material uncertainties that call into doubt the charity’s ability to continue.
Operational · Observational claim · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 58
The King's Fund has a remuneration committee that meets annually to determine salary increases based on economic indicators and affordability.
At the meeting held in October 2024, the Committee was mindful of affordability as well as higher (although reducing) levels of inflation. As a result, it recommended an increase of 2 per cent in January 2025, which Trustees agreed.
Operational · Procedural statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 42
The King's Fund has a robust conflicts of interest policy that requires annual declarations from trustees, committee members, and senior staff.
Trustees, committee members and senior members of staff are required to recognise and deal appropriately with conflicts of interest. Our conflicts of interest policy, which is reviewed annually by the Audit and Risk Committee, sets out our approach.
Governance · Procedural statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 41
The King's Fund has a remuneration policy that aims to provide competitive salaries and ensure fair, equitable, and transparent pay practices.
The King’s Fund believes that to attract and retain the calibre of staff we need to deliver our charitable objectives, our remuneration policy should: • provide salaries that are competitive in our sector • be considered fair, equitable and transparent
Operational · Policy statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 42
The King's Fund receives funding from diverse sources, including commercial organisations, NHS bodies, and government.
Our remaining funding mainly comes from a mixture of income-generating charitable activity (including leadership and organisational development services, our events and funded research and policy analysis) and commercial activities (including hiring out our venue and renting out office space in our building).
Financial · Funding statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 40