Circles of Support and Accountability are an innovative and successful community contribution to reducing sex offending, working in close partnership with criminal justice agencies.
Circles UK is the national body supporting the development, quality, coordination and effectiveness of Providers of Circles of Support and Accountability (Circles).
We were featured in a Sky News documentary in 2019, a feature that won the Criminal Justice Alliance Outstanding Journalism Award that year.
Rev Harry Nigh, from Canada, who set up Circles in 1994 to support sex offenders, says it is easy for politicians to say ‘lock them up’
It was an honour to celebrate 30 years of Circles this month.
Circles of Support and Accountability (Circles) are community-led interventions, designed to support people with convictions for sexual offences who are at risk of committing offences to help them address their behaviours, to hold them accountable, and to support positive outcomes.
We’re delighted to share our Annual Review for 2023-24. Each year, we publish this document to update on the provision of Circles across the UK,
