Big week for Suella Braverman as she tries to restore confidence in the Home Office after multiple breaches of the ministerial code by former home secretary, Suella Braverman.

📢📢📢 After many years working in this area, Luke Billingham and I have finally got around to publishing 'Against Youth Violence' (w/ Bristol Uni Press)

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/against-youth-…

We really hope that people working to improve the lives of children and young people will find it useful.
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Fergus McNeill Andrew Neilson Rob Preece Katie Logue Lee Brown Steve Gallant Dr Zubaida Haque Sally Lewis Prof Pamela Jane Taylor Ben Bradford Our submission to the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody consultation on suicide prevention explores the following key issues:

▪️ sentencing + uncertainty
▪️ prison processes
▪️ prison environment
▪️ staffing

Find it here ⬇️

howardleague.org/wp-content/upl…

Dominic Raab:

The Greatest Hits 💽💽💽

In his most recent spell as Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab achieved the following: 🧵

Dear Rishi Sunak

Congratulations on your appointment by your colleagues as our Prime Minister. I listened to your speech earlier. You said your government will have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level. You also used the word compassion. 1/4

We want to ensure that violence reduction policy in Scotland is informed by people with lived experience of the justice system. Can you help? Aid & Abet Apex Scotland Apex Scotland - West User Voice Navigator Scotland Sacro Shine Mentoring SPARC_Prison_Scot SISCO 💜

WE DID IT!

Our union has smashed the threshold and delivered a massive YES vote in the pay and conditions ballot

History has been made

#ucuRISING

Every word of this, from economist, writer and journalist David McWilliams, via the The Irish Times
irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/1…

Thread.👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

This shows that no one wants to invest in cruelty, even though some dreamed about it! The incoming UK Government must ditch Rwanda Plan and invest the millions paid to Rwanda for empty rooms in Foodbanks. Well done to all involved in this victory ✌️ theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/o…

Join us for author meets critic event at UoNSociology CJRC on 16th November 3-5, where Rob Canton discusses his new book and David Hayes and Jason Warr respond. All welcome. Register to attend here: teams.microsoft.com/registration/7…

There are 81,866 men, women and children in prison in England and Wales today.

There are 230 more people in prison today than there were last week, and 2,645 more than there were this time last year.

Find out more: howardleague.org/prisons-inform…

Image by Andy Aitchison 📸🧡

‘Jewels in the Sky’ was one of September’s Paper Planes. The #PaperPlanes project sees a selection of songs created through Vox Liminis projects released on digital streaming platforms each month.

voxliminis.co.uk/paper-planes/

This group songwriting session was a collaboration with Tomorrow’s Women.

'We talked about the cycle of life – where it starts and where it ends. In the beginning we are seeds and we grow. We also reminisced about childhood games and memories, friendships and freedom'