The impact of arts programmes in criminal justice settings russellwebster.com/?p=54623

Are you passionate about working with young people to create individual and system change? Then apply to join Peer Power Youth as a Senior Youth Worker! ✨ Please apply here: bit.ly/3YLI15p

From the report on Child Q and police's use of strip searching on children. No child should be strip-searched. It is state-sanctioned sexual abuse

🌈Call for Reading🌈: "Transforming the Balance of Power? Child First Collaboration: A Conceptual Analysis" #OpenAccess Societies 👉For more information: mdpi.com/2075-4698/14/8… #Child First #collaboration #youth justice #co-creation #power

Really looking forward to attending this NAYJ Tweets 🤩

'Child First: Developing a New Youth Justice System' explores Child First as increasingly influential in policy and practice in youth justice systems. It's a key read for those working in and studying youth justice. Access the book below ⤵ link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Just booked my ticket for the NAYJ Tweets book launch event on 19 September - come along if you fancy it! ticketsource.co.uk/national-assoc…

📣📣📣📣 England & Wales - are you listening? BBC News - All under-18s removed from Scotland's young offenders institutions bbc.com/news/articles/…

Looking forward to this event, discussing all things desistance and children. If you’re in London on 19 September and interested you can get your FREE ticket via NAYJ Tweets Please RT to share with networks 😌 Youth Justice Board AYJ Centre for Young Lives Peer Power Youth Youth Justice Legal Centre HM Inspectorate of Probation

Relational work is key to supporting young people. But too often, conducive conditions are not created for social workers, youth workers & others to build strong relationships with YP. Colin Michel & I wrote about this for @londonliia - link & 🧵below... 1/6 liia.london/creating-condu…

Very excited to be one of the co-editors of Qualitative Social Work special issue on domestic violence/abuse. See our Call for Papers. Consider submitting and please circulate in your networks. #qualitativesocialwork #domesticabuse #socialwork journals.sagepub.com/page/qsw/calls…

I've a new piece out in The Conversation: 'Kids are digital natives. They have ideas to help protect children from being harmed online' ourANU theconversation.com/kids-are-digit…

📣New ministers have a critical opportunity to reimagine what justice means for children 🌟⁦AYJ⁩ briefing outlines a new agenda: to safeguard & support, end racial injustice & ensure custody is a last resort ➡️Read here bit.ly/3XHt1ot ayj.org.uk/news-content/n…

A really important briefing paper outlining what can be done systematically to improve justice for children and young people ☺️

Painting a wall yellow in a police custody suite will probably not be what creates positive outcomes for children, yet this is what was given as an example of Child First in practice…

🚨 Job post 🚨 We’re hiring a full-time postdoc & part-time RA on social care privatisation. On our Nuffield Foundation project at University of Oxford with me and Anders Bach-Mortensen. Please consider applying/sharing 😃 RA: bsg.ox.ac.uk/node/11000 Postdoc: bsg.ox.ac.uk/node/10999 A thread:

Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Loach and Len McClusky have addressed a meeting and started a new left-leaning political party called ‘The Collective Party’, which could become the largest party in the UK by membership and rival Reform UK’s poll levels. thelondoneconomic.com/politics/corby…

Will be at this event on Thursday with NAYJ Tweets & still some places left if you would like to attend, & I will also be in London until Friday afternoon if any London based connections want to meet up 🤓

Wow this is extremely worrying