We spoke with, Gregory Yard, Senior Probation Officer and Mignon French, CSTR Programme Manager about their work with the Milton Keynes Community Sentence Treatment Requirement (CSTR) testbed.
Sian Rees, Policy Lead for Youth Justice and Young Adults at the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) for South Wales, shared with us their work with young adults involved in the criminal justice system (CJS).
Stephen Sinnott, Community Family Support Team Leader at Partners of Prisoners (POPS), told us all about his innovative work with young adults and their families.
Simon Thorneycroft, Mental Health Strategic Co-ordinator with Dorset Police, told us about two schemes that run locally: the mental health street triage and the liaison and diversion service.
Paul Bullen, Director of Delivery at Northamptonshire Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC), spoke to us about some of their innovative work on mental health.
Local research on the experiences of people with mental health concerns who come into contact with the police and criminal justice system (CJS), resulted in a report with several recommendations. Paul provided two tangible examples of changes to practice as a result of this work.
We spoke with Amit Sethi, EU Head of Operations at SCRAM Systems, who provided an overview of his work and the rollout of the Alcohol Abstinence Monitoring Requirement (AAMR) across England and Wales.
Sam Sanderson, Project Manager at Sussex Criminal Justice Board (SCJB) and Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), told us about their Whole Systems Approach (WSA) project focusing on women in the Criminal Justice System (CJS).
We spoke with police officer Paul Jukes about this innovative scheme that aims to provide early intervention support to young people in Cheshire.
We spoke to Claire Jones – Assistant Chief Probation Officer at Kent, Surrey and Sussex CRC – about the work they are doing with women. Whilst she acknowledged that their work concerning women “isn’t necessarily ground-breaking”, she said it was very much needed.
We spoke with Anita Lord, a VAWG Development Worker with the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), to find out more about this work. She told us that these projects are all part of a wider push to address the needs of those affected by domestic and/or sexual violence.