Enabling children & young people to escape the destructive cycles of crime, doing whatever it takes to create sustained change and a positive future.
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💼 As the Secretariat we are delighted the APPG for Care-Experienced Children & Young People re-started this week with @JoshMacAlister as the new Chair, alongside elected officers @pspencer_CSNI, Lord Wood & Baroness Tyler.
➡️ Find out more: becomecharity.org.uk/become-…
ALT Image of four elected officers for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children and Young People: Josh MacAlister MP, Patrick Spencer MP, Lord Stewart Wood and Baroness Claire Tyler.
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Today, we’re launching the latest Fairer Schools Index, which reveals how assessment of school performance shifts when pupil background is taken into account.
We are also calling on the Government to reinstate value-added measures to ensure fairer evaluations of school progress.
ALT Graph showing category changes by schools in each region once the Fairer Schools Index is applied.
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A five hour train journey but thrilled to be back in sunny Middlesbrough for a few days of work and shadowing committed colleagues @MbroCouncil driving aspirational outcomes with and for young people here caught in cycles of crime and exploitation inc through @shiftukorg.
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Nazarin Zaghari-Ratcliffe it's 'important to remember prisoners are citizens, they need to be given hope and second chances' #longfordlecture2024
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ALL WELCOME to this free workshop I'm running on 21 Nov at Sussex Uni about educational exclusion as a "four-sided" problem.
We'll be discussing the respective roles that school, system, service & societal factors play in educational exclusion/inclusion:
tickettailor.com/events/univ…
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It's National Care Leavers Week! With our colleagues we're calling on the public, professionals, carers, decision makers, and the media to CARE - celebrate care leavers, amplify their voice, raise awareness of challenges and encourage change in policy and practice. #NCLW
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🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧 In this #RadicalReformers, @aglaird welcomes @martinpgriff, Trauma Surgeon @NHSBartsHealth, Clinical Director of #ViolenceReduction at NHS London & Chair of the Board of Trustees @shiftukorg - Listen to the full conversation, here: buff.ly/3NDDOdb 🧵1/3
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Today I’m launching my Private Members’ Bill - the Safer Phones Bill - to protect children from the harms that can be caused by excessive screen time, and the use of social media and other apps, many of them addictive by design.
👉 saferphonesbill.co.uk
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Latest event on Tuesday 8 October: Join @lambeth_council for an evening of exhibits, performances, entertainment and discussion on how we can and will reclaim narratives in the local context of Lambeth. #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2024 #Lambeth #ReclaimingNarratives
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This week, we're just looking at one story.
And it's an important one.
This is the story of private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds, directly making hundreds of millions of pounds off children's care, at the UK taxpayer's expense.
open.spotify.com/episode/3z0…
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Have 8 minutes to spare? Tune in to Fiona Dyer, Director of CYCJ, on @ABCaustralia, as she discusses Scotland's removal of all young people from young offenders institutions - how it works, and why it's a crucial step forward.
🎙️ Listen here: abc.net.au/listen/programs/p…
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I'm speaking on the panel at this screening of the Cut Short documentary, organised by @shiftukorg, hosted at @LSA in Highbury (North London) next Wednesday (12th) evening.
Free places still available - register here:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-sc…
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Young people with care experience are more likely to have contact with the criminal justice system.
A webinar on 26 June will explore the relationship between care experience, ethnicity and youth justice involvement, highlighting stark injustices. ow.ly/Q3fE50RvrKZ
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Potty about practice with vulnerable adolescents? Brilliant at developing people to deliver exceptional outcomes? Come and join us at @shiftukorg - a systems change organisation putting relationships with children at the heart of breaking the destructive cycle of crime.
Job alert 🚨 We want you to join us at SHiFT to change the world for young people caught in the destructive cycle of crime and associated behaviours. This is the job that reminds you of why you went into this work.
jobs.theguardian.com/job/900…
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Children are at most risk of entering the youth justice system due to vulnerabilities, victimisation, trauma, and unmet needs.
The responsibility for reducing this risk sits with adults, not children.
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‘100s of vulnerable children sent to illegal & unregulated care homes in England’ So concerned for these children who will have experienced the worst trauma, abuse & neglect, with multiple & complex needs. They need care not inappropriate settings theguardian.com/society/2024…
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Thrilled to welcome Jo. Jo brings a wealth of practice and policy leadership expertise. I’m excited to be working with her as we ‘bubble up’ learning from @shiftukorg Practices, alongside the evidence about what works. to shape @shiftukorg next strategy for systems change.
Welcoming Jo Reilly, Visiting Scholar at @LeverhulmeCFI, to support SHiFT in developing its external affairs & influencing strategy. Previously: @ChurchillFship, Head of the Serious Organised Crime Unit @hmpps, Public Affairs Adviser to @JustinWelby, Policy Fellow @CSciPol.
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'I think it's very easy to not recognise that you need help sometimes. It can feel like weakness'
Robyn was a vulnerable child herself, and now she works with teenagers at risk through SHiFT. The last episode in our series, Breaking The Cycle.
🎧 Listen now ⬇
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Interesting thread 🧵 below following new @MoJGovUK data on the numbers of children subject to deprivation of liberty orders including a link to the @NuffieldFJO briefing on this that highlights 5 key principles of care needed for these children.
Last year we produced a legal guide for youth justice professionals explaining what they are and what they need to know about them: yjlc.uk/resources/legal-guid…
