Clinks Light Lunch | Issue 623 | 28th February 2020

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CLINKS NEWS: restructuring our senior team

Today we are announcing exciting changes at Clinks. We are restructuring our senior staffing to provide dedicated leadership on each of our five strategic objectives. We have created a new senior leadership group which includes our CEO and two new roles, a Director of Influence and Communications, which will be taken on by Jess Mullen, and a Director of Support and Development. This group will be supported by a Head of Corporate Services, which will be taken on by Victoria Sadler, and a Head of Business Development. We are saying goodbye to two staff who have each been with us for almost 12 years, Kate Aldous and Richard Nicholls, who have taken voluntary redundancy. Kate and Richard have worked tirelessly as part of our senior team to deliver consistent support to the sector in the face of major challenges and changes facing the sector and Clinks, and have contributed to Clinks' growth. Read more here

CLINKS VACANCIES: four new roles

Following the restructure to our senior team, we are recruiting a Director of Support and Development [£58,545, full time, London] and Head of Business Development [£51,324, full time, London]. These roles are essential to our further and future development and we are excited to see who we can welcome into our team to help make us better at what we need to do - being the backbone of a diverse and essential part of the voluntary sector for people who deserve nothing but the best in life. We are also recruiting a London Development Officer [£32,029, full time, London] to join our Area Development Team and A Stronger Voice Project Coordinator [£32,029 pro rata, part time, London] to strengthen the voice and influence of the voluntary sector in order to affect positive change in the criminal justice system. Read more and apply here

CLINKS BLOG: multiple disadvantage is gendered

This blog from Policy Officer, Will Downs, takes a look at the findings of Gender Matters, a new report by Lankelly Chase Foundation and I-SPHERE which examines the experiences of women who face multiple disadvantage in their lives and how these differ from men’s experiences. The blog examines how the findings can help us shape a gendered approach to multiple disadvantage, and how contact with the criminal justice system can be best understood within definitions of multiple disadvantage. Read it here

CLINKS BLOG: HMPPS grant recipients announced

This blog gives details of the organisations that will receive funding through the Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) grant programme 2020-22 and the projects that they will deliver over the next two years. HMPPS has awarded grant funding for 16 new projects to support partnerships with prisons and probation areas nationwide. Congratulations to the organisations who will be receiving funding - we look forward to hearing about the outcomes of the projects. We’re pleased that HMPPS is investing in the voluntary sector and the organisations selected demonstrate the vast range of work that the voluntary sector delivers in the criminal justice system. Read the blog here

CLINKS MEMBER’S NEWS: probation magazine

Issue 15 of Probation Quarterly from the Probation Institute has been published. In this issue, Richard Garside reviews criminal justice policy since 2010 and suggests that, by accident, it may have been a more liberal period than it has often felt. He warns that things may soon change and that the criminal justice ‘footprint’ in society may expand again. It also includes an article from Sam Boyd, Head of Policy, Impact and Communications at Switchback, who reminds of the importance of recognising the strengths of small charities and the need for probation to nurture such partnerships in the interests of working Through the Gate. Read it here

CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: Ministry of Justice roles and responsibilities

Following the recent cabinet reshuffle, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed ministerial roles and responsibilities. Lucy Frazer QC MP remains responsible for prisons and probation, and women in the criminal justice system. Chris Philp MP is responsible for sentencing and Alex Chalk MP is responsible for race disparity. Kit Malthouse MP is both Minister of State in the Home Office and in the MoJ. He is responsible for cross-cutting criminal justice system issues. Read more here

FUNDING: arts in Wales

Colwinston Charitable Trust distributes grants to UK Registered Charities delivering high quality work in the live performing arts and the visual arts. The funding is primarily directed towards the support of activity that benefits Wales - more than 80% of available funding goes to support activity that benefits the arts and people of Wales. The majority of grants are in the range of £5,000 to £20,000. Collaborative projects that assist organisations to share costs, skills and expertise are of particular interest. High quality projects that help young people to better appreciate the possibilities the arts can offer, and those that aim to improve access and understanding of art forms are also of particular interest. Read more and apply before 31st March here

​FUNDING: small charities in Manchester

The Peter Kershaw Trust has grants available for registered charities operating in Greater Manchester. The Trustees will chiefly support local, smaller charities. These grants are made for a wide variety of purposes under the general heading of "social welfare", e.g. to assist people with medical conditions, disabilities, substance or alcohol misuse, to help older people, youth work etc. Applications for new work are welcome and the Trustees give special consideration for "pump priming" requests. Whilst the Trust has no maximum amount of funding that it gives to individual organisations, applicants may want to view the Trust’s latest annual accounts to see the average amount of funding. Read more and apply before 31st March here

CLINKS MEMBER’S EVENT: network and learning fair

The Criminal Justice Alliance and Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU), Manchester Metropolitan University are pleased to announce the ‘Crime and Justice Networking and Learning Fair’ [18th March, Manchester, free]. The Fair will provide opportunities for criminal justice professionals, volunteers and service users to network over lunchtime with a pop-up café provided by service-user-staffed social enterprise Swan Kitchens. Criminal justice experts will then share learning from their research in a series of lectures with direct application to policy makers and practitioners. There will also be an exhibition of photographs from learners from HMP/YOI Isis and a live drama performance from Clean Break Theatre Company. Book a place and see the full schedule and list of organisations in attendance here

CLINKS MEMBER’S TRAINING: living and working in a ‘pornified’ world

This one-day Circles South West training course is for professionals and volunteers working with adults and young people with an online sexual conviction or internet-based harmful sexual behaviour [31st March, Bristol, professionals £75, volunteers £15]. It includes input on online pornography; cybersex technology; how the internet is used to view indecent images, ‘groom’ and offend against children; the latest research about links between pornography and internet offending; and the relationship between contact and internet-only sexual offending. To book email info@circlessw.org.uk   

CLINKS MEMBER’S EVENT: past, present and future of prisons

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, along with Kings College London, is holding a conference, ‘After Strangeways: The Past, Present and Future of Prisons’, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Strangeways protests [1st April, London, from £75]. The conference will consider the deep history of British prisons, using the Strangeways protests as a signal moment in a wider history of problematic and abusive institutions. The conference will also look forward, at the potential futures of prisons, asking: do prisons protect prisoners and the wider society? And, if not, do we need to think differently about the meaning of protection and safety in the 21st century? Find out more and register for your place here

CLINKS PARTNER’S EVENT: probation in crisis or recovery

The Academy for Social Justice is running a seminar: ‘Probation – in crisis or on the road to recovery?’ [19th May, Manchester, free]. Justin Russell, Chief Inspector, HM Inspectorate of Probation will give an overview of early findings from HMI Probation’s second round of annual inspections against a new set of quality standards and what that may tell us about probation performance and its direction of travel after the impacts of Transforming Rehabilitation. He will also discuss the priorities for probation reform indicated by their recent thematic inspections. For further details or to request your free seminar place click here

NON-MEMBERS’ EVENTS AND TRAINING

  • Knife Crime Conference. 12th March | Derby | £75 | Details
  • Book launch: Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood. 27th March | London | free | Details

PUBLICATION: health inequality

10 years on from the landmark report Fair Society, Healthy Lives; The Marmot Review, the UCL Institute of Health Equity and the Health Foundation have published Health Equity in England: Marmot Review 10 Years On. Along with noting deteriorations in health and widening health inequalities in England since 2010, clear links are made throughout the report on the relationship between the wider determinants of health and contact with the criminal justice system. The report notes that involvement in the criminal justice system directly impacts on health, particularly with regards to stress and mental health. The report has a particular focus on youth crime, noting that violent crime, particularly among young men in deprived areas and those excluded from school, has serious immediate and long-term health impacts. Read it here

CLINKS MEMBERS’ VACANCIES

Vacancies on the jobs board this week include: Board Members with RECOOP [Poole], Support Worker with Changing Lives [Durham], Support Worker with Julian House [Yeovil], Lecturer in Warehousing with Weston College [HMP Coldingley], Senior Caseworker and Research Coordinator with Key 4 Life [London], Resettlement Caseworker with St. Giles Trust [HMP Swansea], Pause Practitioner with The Nelson Trust [Somerset], Group Facilitator with Humankind [South Shields], Senior Nurse Lead with Kaleidoscope Project [North Wales], Strategic Development Director with Imagine If Theatre Company [Nationwide]. For more information about these vacancies, and many more, click here

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