Revolving Doors

🚨 Revolving Doors Presents: #BeyondTheCycle 🚨 Following yesterday's historic election result, we offer our strategic roadmap to transform the justice system and end the revolving door of crisis and crime. Coproduced with our lived experience members, this plan offers actionable, evidence-based solutions to divert individuals experiencing multiple disadvantages out of the criminal justice system towards better lives. We know what works. This comprehensive plan outlines four critical steps to create a fairer, more effective system for everyone. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ekQmXTRU Our four key steps for change: Strengthen Community Sentences: Enhance the effectiveness and reach of community-based sentences, providing meaningful alternatives to custody and reducing reoffending rates. Expand Diversion Initiatives: Increase the availability of diversion programs that address underlying issues, such as mental health and substance use, keeping people out of the criminal justice system altogether. Cabinet-Level Focus on Root Causes of Offending: Establish a dedicated, high-level focus on tackling the root causes of crime, ensuring a coordinated and comprehensive approach across government departments. Achieve Change for a System Under Pressure: Harness the power and potential of lived experience involvement to address staffing issues and contributing to trauma informed services, alleviating the pressures on our overstretched justice system and ensuring it works more efficiently and humanely for all involved. 📢 Join us to make a difference 📢 We need your support to make these crucial changes a reality. Share this post, read our blog, and help us advocate for a justice system that prioritises rehabilitation and addresses the root causes of offending. Together, we can create a safer, more just society for all. #JusticeReform #CommunitySentences #DiversionPrograms #RootCauses #SystemChange #RevolvingDoors

📢 "Are public expectations of what can be achieved through community supervision realistic and are recommendations being directed to the correct services?" Revolving Doors trustee Tessa Webb OBE worked in the Probation Service for over 40 years, including leading on localism and improving the connectivity between probation and local services when she served as a director of the Probation Chiefs Association. Drawing on her deep-rooted knowledge and experience of the probation service, its staff and those it supports, Tessa has written about the public narratives around probation - and whether it's time for a shift in thinking if we want a service that works for everyone. Read now ⬇ https://lnkd.in/g38dXq_F

Thank you Revolving Doors Lauren Bennett - we really appreciate the contribution of the Levelling the Playing Field REDI & 'Sport for Development' specialist delivery organisations and how together, we are demonstrating 'Promising' evidence within this important document. The final University of Birmingham Levelling the Playing Field (LtPF) via Professor Joan Duda and Dr Hannah Hammond research reports, are due out shortly. Across this report and evidence within it, all LtPF and respected organisations mentioned within this report are doing incredible work, and together this demonstrates the #CompoundEffect of us all doing constant 'great work'. Being the only #SportForDevelopment approach mentioned within this document, it is also a firm reminder and 'Call to Action' for all Sport for Development organisations. I know there are so many great organisations, delivering amazing things within this space, and all need to come from 'below the radar' - to provide even more evidence for reaching all people, equally. Sport England Sport Wales Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) NHS England #HealthInJustice HMPPS Insights HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) ConnectSport CIC Comic Relief London Marathon Foundation Department for Culture, Media and Sport UK Home Office

We’re thrilled to see the release of the Youth Justice Board and Revolving Doors report on Addressing Racial Disparity in the Youth Justice System. Dr Hannah Hammond’s work with the Levelling the Playing Field project was held up as one of the promising practice examples within the report. Dr Hammond told us... ‘It’s great to see the Levelling the Playing Field (LtPF) project being celebrated as a good practice example to address racial disparity in the Youth Justice System. I’m particularly pleased to see the Youth Justice Board recognise the importance of increased connectedness and trust with local criminal justice agencies as a key outcome of the project. Relationships between ethnic minority children and young people and justice agencies were strengthened by an impressive Community of Practice, which was created and facilitated by the LtPF project. I am excited to await launch the full report which utilises a multi-method approach and a strong theoretical foundation to better understand the mechanisms underpinning the power of sport to promote desistance from crime.’ I want our work to amplify the lived experience voices of the marginalised groups that LtPF seeks to support, and to offer tangible recommendations for tackling inequalities in Sport and Justice.’ Read the report here https://lnkd.in/e-4KAJAK Revolving Doors Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) #levellingtheplayingfield #youthjusticeboard #allianceofsport #sportforgood Dr Hannah Hammond

💜 "I have emerged from the darkest moments of my life stronger, more determined, and fully committed to change. Today, I live free from crime and alcohol, driven by a sense of purpose that once seemed unreachable. This journey hasn’t been easy, but the transformation has been life-changing. I now have clarity, confidence, and a foundation of stability that shapes each day." We're very proud to share this blog lived experience member Caroline wrote for The Magistrates' Association about her transformative experience of recovery whilst completing a Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR). Magistrates' Association members can log in to watch our webinar to learn more about the benefits of MHTRs. The webinar also covered the criteria for referring people to the MHTR team for assessment and the role of pre-sentence reports. Read now ⬇ https://lnkd.in/edFwKYbE

⚖ OUT NOW: Revolving Doors has published a report commissioned by the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) showcasing examples of promising community-based practice to address racial disparity in the youth justice system. Sitting within a wider context of structural racism, Black children and those with Mixed ethnicity continue to be over-represented at all different stages of the youth justice system. This report aims to inspire changes to thinking and practice, demonstrating that a range of interventions can be introduced and that these examples should be adopted and adapted in other areas. We would like to thank our partners and collaborators on this report, and offer our support to those whose good practice is leading the way in addressing racial disparities in the youth justice system. Read now ⬇

🗓 October is #BlackHistoryMonth, and this year's theme is Reclaiming Narratives. We spoke to lived experience member A to get her reflections on breaking free of the preconceptions, stereotypes and marginalisation she has faced as a Black woman with experience of the revolving door, and about how she's walked away from the cycle of crisis and crime into a brighter future. Read more in our latest blog ⬇ https://lnkd.in/dK9aju6X

This evening I was privileged to feature in File on 4s programme about prison recalls on behalf of Revolving Doors. https://lnkd.in/gn-2_qMb

📻 Tuning in to tonight’s #FileOn4 about the crisis in prison recalls ft. Revolving Doors’s very own Kelly Grehan. It was a privilege to be involved in the production of this programme on a hugely important and increasingly relevant topic. Recalls are at record highs yet rarely correspond with actual reoffending. With prisons bursting at the seams, probation at breaking point, and in light of today’s SDS40 releases and Sentencing Review announcement, there’s never been a more urgent time to consider whether recalls are really the best option - or if they just perpetuate the cycle of crisis and crime. Listen here: