🔄 What is the revolving door?
Watch the first of our new short films, voiced by members and produced by expert animators @ticktockrobot, to find out what it means to be trapped in a cycle of crisis and crime - and why we're working to #BreakTheCycle.
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Caroline, a member of the lived experience team at @RevDoors, has blogged for us to share how the Mental Health Treatment Requirement has played a pivotal role in her recovery and how it can be far more effective than a short-term prison sentence: magistrates-association.org.…
📚 We're very pleased to share this report.
Commissioned by the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (@_yjb), it showcases examples of promising community-based practice to address racial disparity in the youth justice system.
Read more ➡️ revolving-doors.org.uk/publi…
We’ve published a new report: Addressing racial disparity in the youth justice system.📊
Commissioned by @RevDoors, it showcases a range of promising practices across England & Wales to inform services looking to adopt a similar approach.
Have a read ⬇
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Have you been involved in proceedings in the Family Court from 2021 onwards?
@RevDoors are working with @BirkbeckUoL and want to hear from you to help create positive change!
Get in touch 👇
Two-thirds of children in YOIs report being segregated, reports @HMIPrisonsnews - 76% at Cookham Wood. @TheHowardLeague's Andrea Coomber: 'It's unconscionable children are locked up for hours on end. Prison is no place for a child.’ Pic: @andyaitchison thejusticegap.com/scandal-of…
We have previously warned of the close link between homelessness and spiralling recall numbers.
SDS40 was necessary to tackle the prisons crisis but without the right long-term support, many of those released cannot escape the cycle of crisis and crime.
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"If it gets much colder, I am thinking of doing something, just to go back to prison," says Leon Lear, 43, as he sits next to the remnants of his failed fire on the edge of a playground in Bridgend, South Wales
Read more🔗
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📢 We welcome this week's announcement from Justice Secretary @ShabanaMahmood about the need to review approaches taken towards female offending, and reduce the number of women going to prison.
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It's good to see that ministers are considering earned early release from prison for participating in education.
But there is no point incentivising people to participate in activities that are not available. The priority must be investment.
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📣 BREAKING NEWS
The Lord Chancellor @ShabanaMahmood MP has made a landmark announcement on #WomenJustice.
Speaking @UKLabour Conference, she said a new Women's Justice Board will be created to reduce the number of women going to prison.
Read more: bit.ly/47HMAAm
ALT A text graphic in bright orange with white text reads: Today’s announcement from the Lord Chancellor is long awaited and finally signals a recognition that women do not belong in prison.
With the highest self-harm rates on record amongst women in prison, failing care for pregnant women, and the death of 2 babies in prison in recent years, the situation has long been at crisis point.
Alongside many of our partners, we have long called for a future where the root causes of offending are addressed, and women can access the support they need in their communities.
Nicola Drinkwater, Director of External Affairs and Campaigns, Women in Prison
👪 Earlier this year the government released the first estimate of the number of children with a parent in prison.
In our latest blog we call for action to support children with a parent in prison and an end to the cycle of trauma, stigma and isolation ➡️ revolving-doors.org.uk/gener…
We’re hearing about Manchester’s work to support women and girls, and about their multi-service hubs for people on probation that are shaped by feedback from service users and are helping to bring down reoffending.
Thank you to everyone who came along today!
We’re sure you’ll agree it was a fascinating discussion. There were some very insightful points made and questions asked.
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Interesting discussion on using lived experience to shape policy at #Lab24 with @ItsGroundswell @RevDoors@JamesTCobbler@KateGreenSU.
Lots of ideas for us at @EmmausUK as we shape policy on ending homelessness with those who have experienced it.
A great start to #Lab24 with this panel, organised by @RevDoors, on ‘Real Lives Driving Change: Using lived experience to shape policy’.
Brilliant contributions from @JamesTCobbler, @DeputyMayorofGM, Ruth Kent @humankind, Steve Riley @RevDoors, James Dillon, Groundswell.
Loads of great practical examples from the panel of the difference it makes when services and policy are designed with people with lived/living experience of the problems those services and policies are seeking to address.
Including better services, better policy, better outcomes, improved lives and a growth in trust between people and organisations and growth in agency, participation, relationships and morale.
Dropped bag off with my lovely Airbnb host in Wavertree. Enjoyed exploring more of #Liverpool on route. I can’t stand dropping in and out of conferences without seeing local place and chatting with people who live here.
Looking forward to seeing more of #Manchester’s sister city and city region over the next few days. #Lab24
For those who attended the @ItsGroundswell @RevDoors@Humankind_UK@JamesTCobbler and heard Jamesy talk powerfully about the right to participation in action- here is the charter to end homelessness created by people with experience of homelessness that he is so proud of.
#Lab24.