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Transforming Rehabilitation:
Making it Work
20th October 2015, Derby
Delievered in partnership with Geldards
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Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) became live from 1 February 2015 when the ownership of the Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) was transferred to the successful bidders. In effect, TR had been running in shadow form from mid 2014. The scale of changes to the offender resettlement and supervision landscape brought about by TR was significant and its implementation has of necessity required ongoing learning.
This conference will give attendees the opportunity to take stock of progress made and to share lessons learned as TR develops to meet the key objectives of reduced reoffending to include a wider cohort of offenders, better public protection and reduced costs. The new arrangements have created two fundamental organisations; the National Probation Service (NPS) and CRCs, with the CRCs now owned by a number of new players. Clearly relationship building and communication between and within the NPS and CRCs (and their subcontractors) is of the utmost importance to ensure that the new system can operate effectively. Add to this communications with the National Offender Management Service (NOMs), Staff, the Police, Victims, Courts, the Parole Board, Local Authorities (crime reduction responsibilities and child protection arrangements), MAPPA, Third Sector Partners, Police and Crime Commissioners, Offenders, coupled with changing operational, IT and other arrangements and we can see that major challenges probably remain.
22nd September 2015, Newbold Revel
Delievered in partnership with NOMS
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There is a growing and significant need to provide effective resettlement services developed from research. Suitable planning is essential and should utilise available research and evidence to achieve effective delivery of required services. A ‘one size fits all’ simply doesn’t work; with evidence suggesting it is necessary to provide tailored services to meet the particular needs of individuals. So how can we all achieve this? Our solution-focused event will bring together a range of stakeholders from across the whole of the criminal justice sector to provide us all with an opportunity to discuss and share key resettlement pathway expertise, so that we can focus future services towards an evidence-based ‘what works best’ approach.
14th July 2015, Liverpool
Delivered in partnership with FACT
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At the end of 2014 the Ministry of Justice released an announcement stating that from January 2015, “every prisoner coming into custody will be asked if they have been a member of the armed forces” and that “prisons will be given new guidance about helping them during their sentence.” The announcement followed wide debate over the percentage of veterans in prison, ranging from 2.7% to 16.75%.
With no previous requirement to identify as a veteran many have been ‘under the radar’ within the criminal justice system, fearing potential stigma, shame and reprisals. With the introduction of this new process we ask, beyond producing more accurate figures, what difference will this actually make to the experience of the veteran both within the criminal justice system and upon leaving the system?
We also ask how important is the identity of a veteran – does the shift from military to civilian life and the associated shift in identity play a part in the numbers of veterans within the criminal justice system, how do professionals within the system navigate this identity, how do they perceive veterans within criminal justice system and how does this perception impact on practice?
The uncomfortable subject of paedophilia: Is it time to end the silence?
13th May 2015, HMP Thameside
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The high profile cases of celebrities, who engaged in harmful sexual behaviour, has brought the subject into public awareness like never before. The time is right therefore to attempt to foster a more productive and less sensational discussion of the issues involved in this most emotive of criminal behaviours. This conference is our opportunity to bring people together so that we may gain greater understanding of this behaviour, the individuals who commit such offences and how we should manage their behaviour before and after an offence has been committed. Are we offering the right services at the right time? What should those services look like? How can they be accessed? For whom should they be available?
This conference will bring together expert speakers and delegates to have an open and honest discussion, in an attempt to gain greater understanding of the nature and scope of the issue, what can be done to improve things, what is already available, what is required and how we can make that happen, so that we can influence future approaches to safeguarding, provide effective programmes to address behaviour, and support for victims and those affected by these crimes.
22nd April 2015, Chesterfield
Delivered in partnership with the Derbyshire Office for the Police and Crime Commissioner
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This conference will enable participants to debate and network, whilst encouraging resource sharing and will be relevant to a wide range of practitioners, policy makers and Commissioners, Heads of Education and Children’s Services, Local Authorities and others who focus on providing services to victims and perpetrators of domestic violence.
We will be asking important questions such as:
4th March 2015, Liverpool
Delivered in partnership with POPS
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The expanded Troubled Families (TF) programme has ambitious service transformation goals and will work with a broader range of multiple problems. Moving forward, the TF programme will extend to a further 400,000 families with a budget of £200m in 2015/16 and will include families with a parent in prison and on community orders.
Not all families of offenders will meet the Troubled Families criteria but never the less they may require support as an integrated part of the offenders’ journey through the criminal justice system to ensure the best outcomes for families.
Research shows that the role of the family can have a significant impact on an offender and their successful re-integration to the community and maintaining positive and strong family ties is one of the key factors in reducing re-offending . This conference is the opportunity to bring together people so that we may gain a greater understanding of the issues faced by the families of offenders and how these issues may or may not impact on the TF agenda.
3rd December 2014, Manchester
Delivered in partnership with Greater Manchester Police and Prison Fellowship
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Restorative Justice is now widely recognised as a valuable intervention that helps to reduce re-offending. Restorative processes allow those who have been directly or indirectly affected by crime and those who have committed crime to come together to restore the harm that has been caused. Restorative Practices are being used in pre-sentencing and custodial settings. This may be in a face-to face encounter or through meeting representatives of the community who are able to help offenders consider the implications of their crime.
18th November 2014, York
Delivered in partnership with the Together Women
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Early intervention for women in the Criminal Justice System is an economical and effective solution to reducing the overall number of women in the CJS as well as preventing the inter-generational nature of offending.
There are particular issues that put vulnerable women at greater risk of committing crime including history of abusive relationships, substance misuse, mental health needs, poverty and the social inequalities that women experience. This is similar for girls and young women involved in the CJS who are at the highest risk of offending in early teens often as a result of a plethora of multiple and complex needs. Many of these women have several contacts with the Criminal Justice System before ending up on Community Orders and in Prison and many have involvement with a great number of agencies before committing crime. Methods used by gender specific women’s organisations in reducing offending behaviour amongst women already entrenched in the Criminal Justice System have demonstrated positive outcomes around employment, financial capabilities, relationships, confidence and social inclusion. Early intervention includes involvement at both an early stage as well as an early age.
22nd October 2014, HMP Cornton Vale
Delivered in partnership with the Scottish Prison Service
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Audit Scotland in their 2012 report ‘Reducing Reoffending in Scotland’ stated that: “Whilst there is a strong body of evidence on what is effective in reducing reoffending there is a mismatch between what is currently being delivered and what is known to be effective. There is an urgent need for a more strategic approach to planning, designing and delivering services at both a national and CJA level.”
There is now a Public Social Partnership model for resourcing prisoner mentoring programmes and the Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice has been founded to promote evidence based practice in the sector. Additionally Community Justice is to be reformed under new primary legislation, prisons are community facing and Police Scotland has been formed. Adopting a holistic approach tailored around individuals and their particular needs and recognising that these may change. There is a significant need to provide effective throughcare services and this involves planning, design and delivery of required services. This is a national conference aimed at anyone managing and/or delivering justice services across Scotland and is a follow on from our successful conference in HMP Barlinnie in November 2012.
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