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Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance
The Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance is a broad coalition of organisations and individuals working to improve the opportunities and life chances of young people in their transition to adulthood, who are at risk of committing crime and falling into the criminal justice system.
The T2A Alliance aims to raise awareness of the problems this group face and to secure policy change to improve their lives. Young adult offenders are a significant group within the criminal justice system and are responsible for a third of all crime. Over a half of young adults in custody go on to reoffend within one year of release and up to two thirds reoffend within two years.
The Barrow Cadbury Trust has convened the Transition to Adulthood Alliance (T2A) to make real progress in this area. T2A Alliance members include campaigning organisations, practitioners and academics. Please click here for a full list of the Alliance members.
Since its launch, the T2A Alliance has been undertaking a series of focus groups and meetings with policy makers, practitioners and young adults on key policy areas, such as education, employment and training, drugs and alcohol, housing, policing and sentencing practices. This work will culminate in two policy documents. The T2A Alliance has launched A New Start: Young Adults in the Criminal Justice System, proposing a series of pragmatic policy changes for young adults in the criminal justice system, with a twelve week consultation period over the summer. The results of the consultation fed into the Young Adult Manifesto, which makes 10 recommendations aimed to make the way in which we deal with young adult offenders more effective, fairer and less costly.
To find out more information on the T2A Alliance, please visit: www.t2a.org.uk/alliance.
To support the T2A Alliance and receive email updates about its work, please visit: www.t2a.org.uk/support_us
