Clinks Light Lunch | Issue 547 | 10th August 2018

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In this week's edition...

CLINKS BLOG: getting prisoners heard in national policy making

In this guest blog Marie Claire O’Brien of New Leaf Initiative discusses her personal experiences of the criminal justice system. She looks at a new network for prisoners to get their voice heard and contribute to national policy making, the Prisoner Policy Network, launched by the Prison Reform Trust. She writes, "The Prisoner Policy Network is a mechanism for change and for good, and I for one am proud to be a part of it and plan to use it to affect change and innovation wherever possible. Prisoner councils have taken us so far, but to change the world we must think bigger, and this is the chance." Read the blog here

CLINKS EVENT: strengthening probation, building confidence

'Strengthening probation, building confidence' [20th August, Bristol, free] is one of a series of events as part of the Ministry of Justice's public consultation on proposals to stabilise and create a strategy for the delivery of probation services. These events will provide an: overview of the proposals from the Ministry of Justice and how you can engage with the consultation process; opportunity to ask the Ministry of Justice questions about the current proposals; opportunity to feed in your views to the Ministry of Justice regarding how voluntary sector engagement can be improved in future probation services; and the opportunity to feed in your views to Clinks’ consultation response. Find out more and book here

CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: Advisory Board for Female Offenders

The Expression of Interest process has been launched for membership of the Advisory Board for Female Offenders (ABFO). Chaired by the Minister for women in the criminal justice system, the ABFO brings together government departments, criminal justice agencies and key stakeholders to provide advice and challenge on the development and delivery of female offender policy. Following publication of the Female Offender Strategy (June 2018) the Ministry of Justice is seeking to refresh the Board’s stakeholder membership to ensure the right mix of expertise to oversee delivery of the strategy’s commitments and to provide national leadership on improving outcomes for women in, and at risk of being in contact with the justice system. Find out more here

CRIMINAL JUSTICE NEWS: Civil Society Strategy launched

The government has launched the first Civil Society Strategy in 15 years. It aims to build stronger communities by bringing together businesses, charities and the public sector. It announces a future vision for ‘collaborative commissioning’, and accepts that the contracting of public services has led to a focus on outputs and not the flexibility and relationships that people accessing services need. In the strategy, prisons minister Rory Stewart recognises voluntary organisations as vital partners to prisons and probation services and states commitment to an ‘end to end’ role for the voluntary sector in criminal justice. Clinks will be writing a blog discussing the strategy shortly. Read more here

CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: future of probation

As part of the Ministry of Justice's market engagement activity for their proposals to stabilise the delivery of probation services, they are running some topic-specific events [Service Design, 14th August | Commissioning and Local Partnerships, 15th August | Service Enablers, 15th August | Commercial Model, 16th August]. The Ministry of Justice has announced a public consultation on proposals to stabilise the delivery of probation services over the next two years and a longer term strategy for probation services beyond 2020.  Find out more here

FUNDING: integrated communities

The Integrated Communities Innovation Fund is now open to expressions of interest from applicants. In partnership with Sport England, and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Fund will help drive forward the proposals to tackle the key causes of poor integration set out in the government’s Integrated Communities Strategy green paper. It will offer support to projects using innovative approaches to tackle the barriers to integration and build integrated communities. There is no minimum or maximum amount of funding, but projects will be judged on value for money. The deadline for applications is 20th August. Find out more here

FUNDING: children of alcohol dependent parents

The government has funding available to support children of alcohol dependent parents. A total of £1 million has been made available to award to voluntary organisations carrying out work in this area. The deadline for applications is 7th September. Find out more here

FUNDING: health and justice

The NHS England Health and Justice Team – North East and Cumbria are holding an engagement event [Durham, 19th September, free] for partners and potential bidders in preparation of the procurement for all healthcare services within the North East prisons, with contracts planned to start in April 2020. If you or a member of your team would like to attend the event email england.north.healthandjusticeadmin@nhs.net

FUNDING: justice and equality

Grants of up to £25,000 are available from the 'Now's the Time' small grants programme from the Justice and Equality Fund managed by Rosa. The Justice and Equality Fund aims to bring an end to a culture of harassment, abuse and impunity by resourcing an expert network of advice, support and advocacy organisations and projects. The deadline for applications is 28th September. Find out more here

CLINKS MEMBER'S EVENT: policing mental health

Tony Cealy is producing a drama about Sean Rigg [24th August, London, free]. Sean Rigg died at Brixton police station following a psychotic episode and prolonged restraint on 21st August 2008. The legal case continues. There will be two post-show Q & A with a panel discussion on deaths in custody, mental health, policing, and what has changed over the past 10 years. Find out more and book here

CLINKS MEMBER'S EVENTS: transforming housing case management

This event from Homeless Link [2nd October, London, free] will take an in-depth look at case management, focusing on In-Form, a cloud based case management solution for the homelessness and supported housing sector. Find out more here

CLINKS MEMBER'S EVENT: Gypsy Roma and Traveller communities

The Traveller Movement is holding its annual conference 'Beyond the tick box: the impact of institutional bias and discrimination on Gypsy Roma and Traveller communities' [1st November, London, price tbc]. Keynote speakers include: Anne Fox, CEO of Clinks; Mairead Healy, member of the Youth Justice Board; and Martin Campbell, co-chair of the Gypsy Roma Traveller Police Association. Workshops include ‘Securing the rights of Irish Travellers and Roma in a post-Brexit UK’ and ‘Taking the "risk" out of ethnicity in criminal justice'. Find out more and book here

NON-MEMBERS' EVENTS AND TRAINING

Employability skills and railway training for people with convictions in the Leicestershire area | Various locations and dates, free| Find out more here

CLINKS MEMBERS' VACANCIES

Vacancies on the jobs board this week include: a Senior Resettlement Worker and Resettlement Worker roles with Shelter [HMP Forest Bank], Team Leader with The Forward Trust [HMP The Mount], High Risk Case Worker (Custody) with Catch 22 [Doncaster], Trustee with Switchback [London], Research and publications volunteer with Prison Reform Trust [Clerkenwell], Prisoner and Family Support Volunteer with Prisoners Abroad [Finsbury Park], Case Worker with Thames Valley Partnership [Home based], Co-Production Officer with Leap [Clerkenwell], Vocational Assessor - Offender Learning with Weston College [South west prisons], Operations Manager – FareShare North East with Changing Lives [Newcastle upon Tyne], Part time Finance Officer with Koestler Trust [East Acton], Who Cares? Project Prison-based Support Worker with Nepacs [Durham]. For more information about these vacancies, and many more, click here

TIPS OF THE WEEK

  • Tip of the week I: Meal for two at Frankie and Benny's for £19.99. Details
  • Tip of the week II: £5 Vue cinema tickets on Mondays. Details
  • Tip of the week III: Mystery getaways! Four nights with flights from £99 to a surprise location. Details

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