Criminal Justice

• The Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance

In 2005, the Trust’s Commission on Young Adults in the Criminal Justice System launched Lost in Transition, which highlighted the complex needs of young adults. The report received wide-spread support and subsequently, in 2008, the Trust convened the Transition to Adulthood Alliance (T2A) with the aim to work with like-minded organisations to make real progress in this area. The Barrow Cadbury Trust has also established Transition to Adulthood (T2A) pilots which will test different approaches to improving services for young adult offenders and will tailor interventions to the maturity and needs of the individual. To find out more about T2A, click here.

To find out more about funding for criminal justice policy and research projects, please click here.

• Grassroots projects

The Barrow Cadbury Trust is committed to funding grassroots groups working in innovative ways with young adults, who are in or at risk of falling into the criminal justice system, primarily in Birmingham and the Black Country (Wolverhampton, Dudley, West Bromwich, Walsall, Smethwick, Sandwell). This includes a focus on girls and young women. To compliment our work at the grassroots level, the Trust has worked hard at raising awareness of the problems that young adults in the criminal justice system face.

To find out more about our grassroots work, please click here.