Blogs

We spoke with Reality Art, an art collective based in North London that specialise in capturing the voices of young people who have experienced the criminal justice system through art.

We spoke with Sal Naseem about his thoughts on how we can improve trust and confidence in the police and how equality, diversion and inclusion could be embedded into police culture. 

We spoke with Carole Edwards, CEO of the community advice service CASSPLUS, about the key elements of the service and her views on the future of the community advice model.

We spoke with Mica Aspinwall, project manager within Lancashire Child and Youth Justice Service about their Child-First Diversion Pathfinder, its evaluation and how they used the Centre's cost avoidance tool to demonstrate the benefits of diversion.

We spoke with Alex Stevens on his view on current drug policy and moving away from over intensive and stigmatising interventions.

Jason Kew reflects on The National Drugs Summit.

­The Centre calls for expansion of evidence-based practices and commission into alternative drug policies.

We co-hosted a session on #WeCops to get a better understandings of how front line officers feel about out of court disposals.

We spoke with Dr Anne-Marie Day, Criminology lecturer at Keele University about insights from her report ‘It’s a Hard Balance to Find’: The Perspectives of Youth Justice Practitioners in England on the Place of ‘Risk’ in an Emerging ‘Child-First’ World.