Research & Publications
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Review of the year's activity from Sacro's Veterans Mentoring Service for armed forces veterans.
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A review of Sacro's activities through 2019/2020
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FearFree (formerly Fearless) has been providing support to hard to-reach victims of domestic abuse, particularly men, LGBT+, non-binary and individuals from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) backgrounds.
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A review of Sacro's activities through 2018/2019.
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A review of Shine Women's Mentoring Service activity and performance throughout 2018/2019
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Sacro's Strategy for Preventing Offending: Getting it Right for Children and Young People. This strategy outlines Sacro’s commitments and priorities for young people, ensuring that they have a strong voice on how services develop.
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Bright Choices is a partnership between Sacro, the Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council, and the Multi-Cultural Family Base. It is designed specifically to support women, men, children, families & communities who are experiencing difficult relationships stemming from disagreements about what behaviour is acceptable.
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Review of the year's activity from Sacro's Veterans Mentoring Service for armed forces veterans.
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Sacro's review of the year 2017/2018.
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Outlines key principles of restorative justice and provides guidance for service providers and facilitators
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Bright Choices is a partnership between Sacro, the Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council, and the Multi-Cultural Family Base. It is designed specifically to support women, men, children, families & communities who are experiencing difficult relationships stemming from disagreements about what behaviour is acceptable.
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Sacro's review of the year 2016/2017. Download as PDF or view online here
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The Scottish Government's strategy for justice 2017 - 2020.
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Review of the year's activities and statistics from Shine Women's Mentoring Service.
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PRT briefing on the use of imprisonment for women in Scotland.
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The report sets out findings from research to explore and collate existing evidence and knowledge on the scale and nature of prostitution in Scotland, focussing predominantly on women involved in prostitution. The scope of the project entailed gathering evidence and informed views from a range of professionals with knowledge and expertise in dealing with prostitution.
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Bright Choices is a partnership between Sacro, the Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council, and the Multi-Cultural Family Base. It is designed specifically to support women, men, children, families & communities who are experiencing difficult relationships stemming from disagreements about what behaviour is acceptable.
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Sacro's review of the year 2015/2016. Download as PDF or view online here
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Sacro’s commitment to volunteering is ongoing and in implementing this strategy, we are seeking to embed the importance of volunteers in every aspect of our operations. View online here.
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A review of the policies, principles and activities Sacro will implement to achieve its vision over the next five years, and beyond. Download here or view online.
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Sacro's review of the year 2014/2015. Download here or view online.
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The purpose of this event was to begin to find out who is doing what, where and how across Scotland in relation to restorative justice and practices in criminal justice. It was organised by the newly formed Scottish Restorative Justice Forum as part of its emerging strategy.
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An independent evaluation of the ‘Shine’ women’s mentoring service has shown a considerable proportion of participants making progress towards a long term reduction in reoffending and increased integration into the community. Shine is a public social partnership, delivered by lead organisation Sacro in partnership with seven other voluntary sector organisations and supported by the Scottish Prison Service, Social Work Scotland and Scotland’s eight Community Justice Authorities.
The evaluation was carried out over six months by Ipsos MORI Scotland.
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Sacro's review of the year 2013-2014.
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The review examines the research evidence on what works to reduce crime. It focuses on three key strategies:
- targeting the underlying causes of crime
- deterring potential offenders by ensuring that the cost of offending is greater than the benefits and
- increasing the difficulty of offending by reducing opportunities to commit crime.
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This report presents an independent evaluation of the Fife Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA or Circles) project run by Sacro. Circles target people convicted of sex offences who are at high risk of reoffending and social isolation. They bring a group of volunteers from the community together with the offender, called the core member, to support and hold him to account.
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Sacro's Annual Review for 2012-2013. This version contains working links to web content. Click on photos for weblinks and video.
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The Monthly Safer Communities and Justice Brief contains an up to date summary of the most important statistics across the justice portfolio.