Taking a leap of faith
“Bold, brave…or just plain bonkers?” As she joins CYCJ as Practice Development Advisor for Secure Care, Ruby Whitelaw ponders new challenges, and what happens when you step outside of your comfort zone. After 25 years of working in residential childcare I was pondering my next challenge, as throughout my career I’ve pushed myself to learn, […]
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A gender-based violence Q&A
To raise awareness of the Gender Based Violence project they are working on, IAP’s Happy n Healthy youth activists held a question & answer session via Instagram on October 28. People were invited to submit questions, which were then answered live. Here’s what they were asked – and what they answered. The project aims to […]
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Beneath the surface
Looking back at her teenage years, Alice (not her real name) reflects on the hurt she experienced and the missed opportunities to do things differently. I was 13 the first time the police pinned me down on the ground, handcuffed me and put me in the back of a police van. I was 14 the […]
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“Hurt people hurt people – but…”
The phrase ‘hurt people, hurt people’ is one we are familiar with – but, asks EGG’s newest member Iain Corbett, is this too simplistic a way of looking at a complex issue? I recently posted a poem on Twitter called “hurt people, hurt people, but…” and I received a few messages about it, each of […]
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How Venture Trust is helping young people achieve their potential
Venture Trust have been making a big difference to young people in conflict with the law – or at risk of being so – through its person-centred criminal justice programmes. Mike Strang, Venture Trust’s Chief Operating Officer reflects back on what has worked, and why it’s helping change lives. “I used to think that people […]
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Bail and Remand – Dan’s Story
Bail and remand can be difficult to understand if you’re a child or a young person – or if you’re supporting them as a family member. By creating this short animation telling the story of ‘Dan’, CYCJ hopes to help people affected better understand what’s involved, who can help and what the issues are that need […]
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The halfway point – how you can help
As Inclusion as Prevention (IAP) reaches the halfway point in its five-year span, Natasha Hessami reflects back on the first IAP Annual Assembly – and the ideas to help IAP grow that the community shared with us. IAP joined the rest of the world in having our established ways of working challenged and changed by […]
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This is about all of us, not some of us
As participation further embeds itself into practice, organisations are reflecting on their responsibility to compensate people with lived experience for their time and effort. In this blog, Shumela Ahmed (Resilience Learning Partnership) does just that and calls on others to engage in a conversation about how we value the expertise and labour of those with […]
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Change is in the air…
“There’s something in the air…but we’ve got to keep going.” The words of defence lawyer Iain Smith could not have been more appropriate for this year’s rights-themed National Youth Justice Conference, at which he was a speaker. Charlotte Morris looks back at an event that saw delegates and speakers unite in a powerful desire for […]
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