The newsletter for arts organisations working in criminal justice
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In this month's issue...
- National Alliance for Arts in Criminal Justice news
- Events and training
- Arts and criminal justice news
- Resources & publications
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National Alliance for Arts in Criminal Justice news
Save the date: our Annual Anne Peaker lecture is happening on 8th December
We hope that you can join us in London on 8th December for our annual Anne Peaker lecture. The evening will be full of presentations, performance and discussion celebrating the work of our members. This year's event will focus on the UK arts and criminal justice sector in an international context, examining examples of innovative projects and practice worldwide. Full details on the event, including the speakers and how to book, will be announced in early November. In the meantime, please save the date: 8th December 2015.
Are you interested in finding out more about working in the arts and criminal justice sector?
The National Alliance for Arts in Criminal Justice (NAACJ)'s professional mentoring scheme aims to expand opportunities for our members to develop professional skills and knowledge in the field of arts and criminal justice through a one-to-one mentoring relationship. We are looking for NAACJ members who already have some experience of working with the arts and marginalised or vulnerable people, but would like the chance to learn more about working with the arts in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) from an expert mentor. The expert mentors have all completed our mentor training and have significant experience working with arts in the CJS. The deadline for applications is Friday 27th November 2015. For more information and to download an application form, please click here.
Blog post: creating new narratives
"We are always telling stories about ourselves, consciously and unconsciously. Some of them we have told so many times that they have become part of our identity. Sometimes we embellish them for an audience, to make us look good and often the ones that we tell ourselves in the dark make us looking very, very bad. Our stories can help us move forward or hold us back in old patterns and narratives... By telling ourselves a new story about an old dream, we begin to see ourselves differently and possibilities for fresh narratives emerge." Kate McCoy, Safe Ground's Women's Programme Development Coordinator, talks about a project Safe Ground has been running in women's prisons to create new narratives. Read the full piece on our blog here.
Have you got something for the next newsletter?
The next newsletter will be sent on Thursday 26th November. Please email kate.davey@clinks.org with anything you would like included by Thursday 19th November.
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Events and training
Knowledge exchange in university-prison partnerships
10th November 2015 | Bath Spa University | Free
This free interactive seminar hosted by Bath Spa University will ask how universities and prisons can forge productive partnerships for their mutual benefit, and how offenders can be active participants involved in knowledge exchange. The seminar will consider the benefits of partnership, barriers and limitations to engagement, and the potential role of voluntary sector partners. The event will present opportunities for academics, professionals working in the penal system, policy-makers, ex-prisoners and voluntary sector organisations to share their experience and expertise. For more information please click here.
Child protection and safeguarding in the arts and cultural sectors
11th November 2015 | London | £130
Of benefit to individuals and organisations looking to update their understanding of child protection legislation and best practice, this Artswork course provides a full update on current child protection legislation, including the Disclosure and Barring Service, the Duty to Refer and Working Together. The day will provide practical advice to help you develop sensible structures and build confidence around child protection issues, within the context of developing and delivering creative and cultural projects for children and young people. Click here for more information.
Good Vibrations Jamelan
18th November 2015 | University of York
Jamelan is an improvised music fundraising event that will see sponsored players working together over a ten hour period to create an ever-changing soundscape with a variety of instruments and styles, focused around an Indonesian instrumental orchestra (Gamelan). You are invited to come along and take part in the marathon, improvising around some loosely defined themes whilst being sponsored to raise money for Good Vibrations. There will be a performance at the end of the day that will showcase the best of the event's improvisational journey. Click here for more information on how to get involved.
Inside Prison Radio
24th November 2015 | Southbank Centre, London | £75
Prison Radio Association's annual training and development conference is aimed at prison radio practitioners, and anyone working in or around prisons who's interested in the power of prison radio. This year the focus is on creating great content, with contributions from leading experts in the radio industry who'll share tips and advice on how to make simple, compelling radio. For more information, please click here.
Just and affordable rehabilitation: what does good look like?
1st December 2015 | London | £50 - £150
Clinks' 'Just and affordable rehabilitation: what does good look like?' conference will feature a farewell speech from their outgoing Director Clive Martin, and it will be your first opportunity to hear from their new CEO Anne Fox. Joining Clive and Anne will be prisons' minister Andrew Selous and a host of experts running workshop sessions. The workshops will focus on personalisation, social care and the Care Act, Transforming Rehabilitation, volunteering, young adults, multiple and complex needs, police and crime commissioners, and women's services. Click here for more information.
Cardboard Citizens - Theatre of the Oppressed training
4th - 6th December 2015 | London | £324 - £420
This three-day training event will give participants an understanding of 'Rainbow of Desire' techniques and their practical applications; from the facilitation of a therapeutic group to the rehearsal of a play. 'Rainbow of Desire' is the name given by Augusto Boal to a range of exercises, games and techniques that use the power of theatre to identify, analyse and respond to 'internalised oppression' and to seek to understand where it comes from. It will be useful for those already familiar with Forum Theatre and/or facilitators from other disciplines such as social and political activism; education; conflict resolution; mental health; community building; and drama therapy. Click here for more information.
Community-led solutions to gender inequality, victimisation and offending
15th December 2015 | London | £15 - £60
The IARS International Institute has announced its 4th International Annual Conference, titled 'Community-led solutions to gender inequality, victimisation and offending.' It will bring together affected women, policy makers, researchers, funders and practitioners to debate and discuss topics including violence against women; migration; asylum and gender; female offenders; women-led best practice models; understanding and addressing inequality; crime; and victimisation through gender. Click here for more information and to book.
Arts and Health: Check Up, Check In
29th January 2016 | Dublin | 20 Euros
Create, Dublin City Council's The LAB and artsandhealth.ie are holding 'Arts and Health: Check Up, Check In' as a networking opportunity for arts and healthcare practitioners and artists who work in healthcare settings. Against the backdrop of 2016, the event will check the pulse of arts and health in Ireland, and will include a presentation from Clive Parkinson from Arts for Health, Manchester, as well as workshops and discussions throughout the day. Click here for more information.
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Arts and criminal justice news
Coates review: call for evidence
How can participation in prison education programmes be improved? How do we measure performance and effectiveness? Which teaching models work, and what good practice exists? Dame Sally Coates is inviting submissions of evidence for the review of education provision in our prisons. The review aims to assess how we can education for adult prisoners (over 18s) can be improved, with plans to make recommendations to government in spring 2016. If you would like to participate, you can email submissions of evidence to education_review@justice.gsi.gov.uk, or fill in a short online form by clicking here. The deadline for input is Friday 13th November 2015.
The Aspirational Prison
The Prisoner Learning Alliance held their second annual conference in Leeds on Friday 11th September, launching with an exclusive video message from the Justice Secretary, Michael Gove. This was followed by Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons, giving a keynote address. Discussing the idea of an 'aspirational prison,' he spoke about the importance of staff engaging prisoners to learn and to keep progressing with their education. For more information on what happened during the day, please click here.
The impact of education on reoffending rates
The Ministry of Justice has published a Justice Data Lab report assessing the impact on re-offending of grants provided through the Prisoners' Education Trust (PET) to offenders in custody to complete a distance learning course or to purchase learning materials, as well as looking at the re-offending rates of prisoners who were refused such grants. Overall, the analysis shows that participating in an intervention provided by PET led to a reduction in reoffending of 6 - 8%. Click here to download the report.
Transforming Rehabilitation: the voluntary sector perspective
This paper, published by NPC, summarises a discussion convened on 9th May 2015 with representatives from voluntary sector organisations that had bid unsuccessfully in the 2014 Transforming Rehabilitation Tier 1 tendering process. It aims to show the perspectives of those involved to better understand the reasons for failure and what can be learned for the future. Click here to read the paper.
Arts Council England launches Cultural Education Challenge
On 14th October, Arts Council England urged all those in the arts and education industries to work together in offering a consistent cultural education for all children and young people. The Cultural Education Challenge aims to encourage sector leaders across the arts, education, local authorities, schools, higher education institutions and others to create new ways of working. This push to promote the sharing of resources to create joined up arts and cultural provisions locally comes at a time when public funding remains under pressure. Click here to read more.
Made to measure: creative offenders working in design and fashion
Joe Gardham, Clinks' Communications Manager, has written a blog post about the Handmade Alliance following their prestigious Charity Times Social Champion Award win. The Handmade Alliance grew out of Founder and CEO Mairi Duthie's desire to address concerns about social justice using her design and teaching expertise. The organisation addresses the lack of small scale design manufacturing hubs in the UK, and works with serving and ex-prisoners to develop their vocational textile skills with the intention of improving their chances of reintegrating successfully into society. Click here to read the full blog.
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Resources & publications
Challenges facing prisons and probation
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has published its Annual Report 2014-15, looking at the challenges facing prisons and probation, deaths in custody, and complaints received by the Ombudsman. Nigel Newcomen CBE, Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, said: "The number of self-inflicted deaths in custody remains unacceptably high and, in 2014-15, there were still 38% more than in 2012-13." Download the report here.
New research reveals financial challenges facing the museums sector
New research by Arts Council England has revealed the financial challenges facing the museum sector and recommends that museums "must be on the front foot and take responsibility for seeking to link the museum to the broader council agenda" including health and wellbeing. It looks at the different models being explored to maintain resilient museum services and concludes that "non-statutory services will come under increased pressure as local authorities make further budget reductions that cannot be balanced with efficiency savings." The research results in a number of recommendations including "taking the museum out to the rest of the local authority (and the broader community) and ensuring it is clear what the museum can do for them, rather than what they can do for the museum." Click here to read the full report.
An alternative guide to mental health
The King's Fund has produced an animated alternative guide to mental health services in the UK. The animation explores the range of services available, highlighting key issues in mental health provision. Released to coincide with World Mental Health Day on 10th October 2015, the animation was produced with input from three experts by experience and advice from a mental health nurse and a senior colleague from a mental health charity. Click here to see the guide.
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This newsletter is written monthly by Kate Davey.
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