Thank you for your interest in the post of Intern (Policy and Programmes) with the Barrow Cadbury Trust.

Please find below an attachment with the following information:

1. The job description and person specification for this post
2. Complying with Preventing Illegal Working Legislation
3. Application documents (Person Specification Statement and Covering Statement)

If you would like to apply for this position, please send the following documentation to Madeleine Rooke-Ley (m.rooke-ley@barrowcadbury.org.uk) by the closing date, 5pm on Wednesday, 23 May 2012:

1. CV
2. Completed Person Specification Statement (see attachment below)
3. Completed Covering Statement (see attachment below)

Interviews for short listed candidates will be held on Friday, 1 June 2012 at our office at Kean House, 6 Kean Street, London,WC2B 4AS.

The Birmingham T2A project’s youth to adult transfer process is highlighted as best practice, and the following recommendation is made:

The Riot Roundtables brought key local decision-makers, professionals, young people and members of the community together to find out what happened during the riots and what can be done to prevent something similar happening again. Runnymede was keen to find out if race played a role in the riots.

To download the report, please click here: http://www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/174/32.html

The foreword to the report is below

Riots are not demonstrations. They are not organized, do not have a clear set of political demands, or spokespeople who might seek to explain the actions of the many who are caught up in the disorder that ensues. In this vacuum of explanation, many commentators have sought to makes sense of last August’s riots.

Immediately following the events of Saturday 4th August in Tottenham, we pointed to the classic features of the disturbances which appeared very similar to past events that have come to be understood as ‘race riots’: anger at police actions, breakdown in communication between police and policed, anger at patterns of discrimination, high levels of unemployment, and fear of further exclusion. However, 24 hours later we had to admit that the events had taken an unprecedented turn, both in terms of the scale of the riots, the number of people involved, and the multiple locations of disturbances.

Commentators were quick to dismiss racial injustice as a driver of these disturbances. The claim was that since the rioters were from a range of ethnic backgrounds, the riots were not racialised. Due to the breadth and range of locations, it was further suggested that there were no clear reasons for the riots beyond ‘criminality, pure and simple’.

We felt that these explanations were at best incomplete. Instead of indulging in further speculation, we were keen to hear from people who were directly affected by the riots. As a race equality focused organization, we wanted to ask directly about how racial inequality and injustice may have featured in the riots. This was not to pre-suppose that these events were driven solely by poor race relations; indeed we would rather that this was not the case.

In order to discover how racial injustice may have featured in the riots of August 2011, we hosted a series of roundtables where people engaged in community work from black, white and Asian backgrounds reflected on the events, alongside a series of interviews of members of the general public in hair and beauty salons. Much discussion in the post-riots analysis has been focused on young people. In order to enable young people’s voices to be foregrounded in our analysis, we supported three groups of young researchers in London and Birmingham who hosted discussions among their peers.

These discussions have highlighted the ways in which racial injustice acted as a driver for the riots, and crucially have reminded us about the issues which need to be tackled in order to minimise the risk of such devastating disturbances in the future. Misdiagnosis of the causes for the riots will inevitably lead to misdirected solutions being offered. The findings in this report suggest that unless we start to take concerted action to respond to the persistent racial inequalities in our society that in a period of financial austerity we are at risk of facing similar disturbances again in the near future.

Dr Rob Berkeley

Director

Runnymede

January 2012

In the decade since the start of 2000 the number of women in prison had risen by 60%. Most served ineffective and wasteful short sentences of six months or less. With many having experienced high rates of mental health problems, sexual abuse, domestic violence and substance misuse, custodial sentences were increasingly seen to be adding to the trauma, chaos and disruption to the lives of the women and their children.

In an unprecedented move, during June 2008, concerned that their grant-making investments in this field were being applied to a failing system, more than 20 independent philanthropic foundations (including the Barrow Cadbury Trust) formed the CIFC to challenge the government to implement the Corston Report. This called for an end to putting non-violent women offenders in jail and moves towards placing them in far more effective community solutions.

The aim of the CIFC was to:

• Give a single voice to the concerns of funders in relation to the treatment of women offenders
• Keep the women’s agenda in the criminal justice system in the public eye
• Work with the Government to implement the Corston report and ensure the women’s agenda was not lost to the public spending squeeze

The evaluation, published today demonstrates the impact the CIFC has had. It finds that through funder advocacy and collaboration the CIFC achieved outcomes that individual trusts and foundations could not have achieved alone. Its contribution was helpful and timely, demonstrating the role of funder advocacy and the potential of funder-Government collaboration.

Achievements include:

• An expanded network of women’s centres offering alternatives to custody
• A new national body supporting women’s centres – Women’s Breakout – has received sufficient MoJ funding to secure its future for the next few years
• The Prison Minister publically declaring that he would build on the work started by his predecessor, Labour minister, Maria Eagle, and reduce the number of women in prison by the supporting a network of women only community provision

At the launch, in the House of Lords today, the CIFC announced that they are to continue their work as more needs to be done to establish a just and proportionate response to women caught up in the criminal justice system and for their children who were inadvertently punished as a result.

Liz Cadogan, from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and a member of the CIFC stated ‘We believe that in the last couple of years, by working together trust funders have had a strong influence on community-based women’s services and have held a light to government policy. We believe that we have to continue this work together.’

Notes:

About the CIFC

The Corston Independent Funders’ Coalition was formed during June 2008 by more than 20 independent philanthropic foundations who wanted to challenge the government to implement the Corston Report.

About the evaluation:

The independent evaluation was undertaken by the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at CASS business school.  It covered a period of three years between June 2008 and May 2011 and involved scrutiny of a wide range of CIFC documents, a literature search, semi-structured interviews and two online surveys.

It is available to down load from the LankellyChase Foundation website and The Bromley Trust website.

For more information contact Peter Kilgarriff, Chair of the CIFC, on 07914529984

Sara is a co-signatory of a letter to the Editor published in the Times Newspaper today.

The letter is a result of the findings by the Centre for Social Justice’s new report on Youth Justice, published today, which is the result of a two year inquiry.  The report also references the Barrow Cadbury Trust’s Transition to Adulthood (T2A) programme, and its project in West Mercia led by YSS.

The full text of the letter, and list of signatories, is:

Sir, At 10 years old the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) in England and Wales is too low. It makes society less safe and delivers counter-productive outcomes for children. Its other fatal flaws are set out in today’s report, Rules of Engagement, from the Centre for Social Justice. It should be raised to at least 12.

Since the MACR was raised from 8 to 10 in 1963, a significant body of research has emerged indicating that early adolescence is a period of marked neurodevelopmental immaturity. During this time, children are deemed less responsible for their behaviour and have limited competence to participate in criminal justice proceedings.

This lack of competence significantly reduces the likelihood of determining the truth and achieving justice. Compelling evidence demonstrates that involving young children in the youth justice system can increase the likelihood of their future offending.

The above issues are distinct from the question of the age at which children understand the difference between right and wrong, a question on which the MACR debate often misguidedly centres. Most children can broadly differentiate between right and wrong, however their capacity to judge magnitudes is limited, especially if they have grown up in dysfunctional families and experienced abuse as many young offenders have.

The MACR is also peculiarly inconsistent with other aspects of the law in England and Wales, as well as being out of step with that of many western countries and the judgment of international human rights bodies.

Robust action, outside the youth justice system, to deal with child offenders aged 10 and 11 would serve justice more effectively and better prevent future crime.

Shami Chakrabarti, Director, Liberty
Chris Wright, Chief Executive, Catch 22
Lord Warner, House of Lords and first Chair, Youth Justice Board
The Earl of Listowel, House of Lords
Frances Crook, Chief Executive, the Howard League for Penal Reform
Shauneen Lambe, Just for Kids Law
Dr Eileen Vizard, CBE, FRCPsych, Sieff Trustee
Professor John Pitts, Director, Vauxhall Centre for the Study of Crime, University of Bedfordshire
Dr Charlie Alcock, Founder and Chief Executive, MAC-UK
Lord Dholakia, House of Lords
Desmond Hudson, Chief Executive, The Law Society (of England and Wales)
Baroness Deech, House of Lords
Lord Ramsbotham, House of Lords
Baroness Linklater, House of Lords
Baroness Stern, House of Lords
Dr Maggie Atkinson and Sue Berelowitz, Children’s Commissioner and Deputy Children’s Commissioner for England
Keith Towler, Children’s Commissioner for Wales
Tam Baillie, Children’s Commissioner for Scotland
Sir Louis Blom-Cooper, QC, Doughty Street Chambers
Sally O’Neill, QC, Furnival Chambers
Paul Mendelle, QC, 25 Bedford Row Chambers
Shan Nicholas, Interim Chief Executive, The Children’s Society
Professor Sir Andrew Ashworth, Vinerian Professor of English Law, All Souls College, Oxford
Professor Sue Bailey, Royal College of Psychiatrists
Richard Garside, Director, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Andrew Flanagan, Chief Executive, NSPCC
Camila Batmanghelidjh, Founder and Chief Executive, Kids Company
Andy Bell, Deputy Chief Executive, Centre for Mental Health
National Association of Youth Justice
Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green, Professor Emeritus of Child Health, University College London
Sara Llewellin, Chief Executive, Barrow Cadbury Trust
Enver Solomon, Chair, Standing Committee for Youth Justice
Juliet Lyon, Director, Prison Reform Trust

British Future is a new independent, non-partisan organisation seeking to involve people in an open conversation, which addresses people’s hopes and fears about identity and integration, migration and opportunity. The report, as well as information on British Future’s work, can be found on its newly launched website.

The Barrow Cadbury Trust’s support for this organisation derives from its longstanding commitment to promoting a fair and equitable approach to migration and integration. For further information about the Trust’s Migration and Europe programme please click here.

- the Trust’s ‘Small Change’ funding initiative

- a report on social and ethical investment

- Barrow Cadbury’s 2011 party conference season and

- a report on ‘Funding Plus’ by IVAR

As in previous editions, the newsletter covers each of the Trust’s programmes, including new grants and an update on progress made by some of the grassroots, policy and research projects that we are currently funding.

Read the full report here

Khan writes: ‘Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime’ was more than a clever soundbite, it was a successful approach to criminal justice policy that left crime 43 per cent lower when Labour departed office than when it entered. Punishment and Reform: How our justice system can help cut crime addresses the challenge of how Labour is to build on this legacy and further reduce crime, but within the tough spending constraints imposed by straitened times.

The report includes a chapter by Barry Mizen who, along with his wife Margaret and the rest of their family, set up the Jimmy Mizen Foundation following the murder of their son in May 2008. Other authors include Lord Victor Adebowale, Baroness Jean Corston, Dame Helen Reeves, Professor Julian V Roberts and Matthew Ryder QC.

This year the survey examines public attitudes to the Arab Spring and EU burden sharing. It also explores what the public think about economic migration and seeks to identify what they value most in prospective immigrants.

The Key Findings report and topline data can be found on the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) website.

The survey is a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States , the Barrow Cadbury Trust, Compagnia di San Paolo, with additional support from the Fundación BBVA.

Signing up to the mutual gives you access to rewards, information and advice that can help support you to take action and improve the community you live in.  Your Square Mile has already negotiated substantial benefits for Mutual members, including:

• £1m of Public Liability Insurance for community events and volunteering
• Personal accident insurance
• A free legal services helpline
• 20% off printing to help you promote local activity in your community

It is also working on additional deals including;

• A loyalty card for discounts at local shops in partnership with the Big Issue;
• Faster and cheaper CRB checks
• Community gardening kits
• Clean up my community kits
• Cheaper street party insurance for 2012 Jubilee and Olympics parties

This is a great package for anyone involved in local community action. You can join the mutual at http://yoursquaremile.co.uk/action-page/