Unlocking Potential

Thursday, 5 June 2025

I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

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  More trouble at the new Secure School. Ofsted visited in April after concerns were received about children’s safety and well-being. Inspe...
Thursday, 22 May 2025

A Good Try- but can it be Converted?

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  I met David Gauke a few years back when our sons were on opposite sides in a rugby match. I was impressed that he recalled our touchline c...
Wednesday, 21 May 2025

Sentencing Review: Three Things to Look Out For

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  Unless something’s been kept under wraps, many of the broad recommendations of the Sentencing Review have already been trailed as has the ...
Saturday, 17 May 2025

Dutch Lessons

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  Prisons at bursting point, insufficient staff to run them and maintenance backlogs threatening to make them unusable. This isn’t the UK bu...
Friday, 25 April 2025

Incapacitating Children in Custody

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  Two days after announcing a trial into the use of Conductive Energy Devices (tasers) in adult male prisons, the Justice Secretary has au...
Sunday, 20 April 2025

How Goes the Revolution? A difficult start for the first Secure School

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  The Oasis Restore secure school opened to great fanfare last Summer, promising a revolution in the way children accused and convicted of t...
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Tuesday, 15 April 2025

Learning the Right Lessons

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I t is entirely understandable that families whose lives were so tragically torn apart by the actions of Hashem Abedi should find it so har...
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Independent researcher and consultant on criminal and youth justice and prisons, co-founder of Justice and Prisons, working in UK and abroad.
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