Clinks Light Lunch | Issue 778 | 14 April 2023

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CLINKS NEWS: HMPPS Regional Third Sector Stakeholder Events

HMPPS Third Sector Partnerships and Programmes Team, in partnership with Clinks, are planning a series of events to gather feedback on the organisation-wide Third Sector Partnership Approach.

The approach provides a guiding set of principles to strengthen and maximise the department’s engagement with the Third Sector to highlight and raise the profile of the valuable services the Third Sector provides across England and Wales.            

The events will also provide an opportunity to engage with regional HMPPS colleagues, and hear about the upcoming Innovation Grants programme. The first event is being held on [24 April, 9.30 -12.00, 102 Petty France, London, SW1H 9AJ]. To register, please click here.

There will also be events held in the Exeter, Cardiff, Newcastle, Birmingham, and Manchester across May-July, with a virtual event taking place at a later date for those who are unable to attend in person.

CLINKS MEMBER’S NEWS: racial disparities in youth justice

This blog by The Howard League for Penal Reform highlights alarmingly high levels of disproportionality in the UK's youth justice system in the early months of 2023, with over-representation of Black, Brown, and Racialised children in prisons. This stems from over-criminalisation and under protection of communities of colour, resulting in unnecessary custodial outcomes.

The Howard League for Penal Reform has launched a programme to reduce racial disparities in youth justice, working with courts, youth justice services, community groups and those with experience of criminal justice systems to identify key gateways for disproportionality and draw up practical recommendations. The programme is currently focusing on the role of decision-making in custodial remand placements, where a conflation of risk with vulnerability is leading to such outcomes. Read the blog here.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: thematic review of weekend in prison

The His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons (HMIP) found when more than 6,000 prisoners were surveyed in 2022–23, 60% of men said they spent less than two hours out of their cell on a typical Saturday or Sunday, compared with 42% during the week. This was more than double the proportion in the year before the pandemic (28%). The effect on women in prison was even starker; they were now four times more likely to say that they received less than two hours out of their cells at weekends. For more information, read the review here.

CLINKS MEMBER’S EVENT: trauma informed network meeting

One Small Thing Charity invite you to hear from Dr Sophie Mitchell who will share her research on the intergenerational traumatic impact of maternal imprisonment [6 June, 13.30-16.30, The Commo Room, Newcastle, Free].

At this regional network event, you will have the opportunity to meet and reflect upon trauma informed work, share insights and ideas, collaborate and find solutions to embedding trauma informed practice.

All are welcome to join - anyone with an interest in working with trauma and in becoming trauma informed and colleagues who are already delivering their core work in a trauma informed way. Register here.

NON-MEMBER’S EVENTS AND TRAINING: The legacy of Stephen Lawrence - 30 years on

Join TUC and Dr Neville Lawrence on [Fri, 21 Apr - 18:30 to 21:30] to reflect on 30 years since the death of Stephen Lawrence and the ongoing fight to secure racial justice. Following the public inquiry by the then Home Secretary, Jack Straw, the TUC established its first anti-racism task group- The Stephen Lawrence Task Group. The task group was set out to oversee the work of trade unions to tackle institutional racism. You can book your place here.

RESOURCE: Psychologically Informed Management

Homeless Link have developed a suite of resources for managers of frontline homelessness services. Their six month Community of Practice (CoP) is focused on ‘Psychologically Informed Management’, based on the principles of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE). These are services designed and delivered with consideration of the emotional and psychological needs of the people using them. A key part of the PIE approach is staff training and support, enabling workers to move away from crisis management and work in a more therapeutic and planned way.

The CoP discussed ways to become more psychologically informed in managing teams and developed these resources to support managers in doing so. Resources are designed to help managers ensure frontline staff receive person-centred support, in a psychologically informed way, and include topics such as understanding burnout, vicarious trauma and secondary traumatic stress. Access the resources here.

OPPORTUNITY: research to support children and young people

Northumbria University is interested in understanding which outcome measures are needed to understand desistance and reductions in offending to prevent offending and reoffending and to ensure that individual needs are sufficiently targeted.

Do you Case Manage or Supervise children, young people or adults on Probation? Do you have things to say about the way things work now or how they might work better when supporting children, young people and adults move away from offending? You may be eligible to take part in a workshop that could help improve the way we target resources aimed at tackling reoffending.

This research has been ethically approved by HMPPS and Northumbria University.

For more information follow these links: Youth Justice / Probation or contact danna-mechelle.lewis@northumbria.ac.uk

CLINKS MEMBERS’ VACANCIES:

Property Manager with Julian House [£30,600, either B&NES, Somerset and North Somerset, however must have a willingness to travel to all locations, full time]; Programme Manager (Fixed term - 12 months) with Julian House [£39,000, one of our offices in ​B&NES, Somerset and North Somerset, but would be required to travel across all locations, full time]; Criminal Justice Casework Coordinator with Julian House [£23,240 - £24,612, Burnham-on-Sea with travel around Somerset, full time]; Communications & Fundraising Officer with Leap - Confronting Conflict [£32,000 - £35,000, Finsbury Park, full time]; Senior HR Advisor with Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact) [£42,000, Central Office or Home based, full time]; Visits Centre Assistant (16 hours) with Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact) [£21,255, HMP Leicester, part time]; Family Engagement Manager with Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact) [£27,500, HMP Stoke Heath, full time]; Personal Wellbeing Advisor (21.5 hours) with Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact) [£25,500, West Yorkshire, part time]; Casual Visits Centre Assistant with Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact) [£21,255, HMP Maidstone, part time]; Casual Visits Centre Assistant with Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact) [£21,255, HMP Rochester, part time]

For more information about these vacancies, and many more, click here

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