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Barrow Cadbury Trust Strategic Plan 2010/13 published
This Strategic Plan sets out how, in the next three years, the Trust intends to build on the legacy of Barrow and Geraldine in order to promote social justice and support disadvantaged communities to influence policy. The Trust has four strategic objectives for 2010/2013. These are underpinned by a number of operational objectives which are set out in the Operational Plan for 2010/2011.
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Aiming Higher and Towards a Shared Future
Revolving Doors Agency (RDA) has launched two guides which form part of their work with the Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance. Both focus on services for young adults with multiple needs; 16-24 year olds who experience a number of vulnerabilities such as mental health problems, drug and/or alcohol misuse, homelessness and contact with the criminal justice system. Aiming Higher is a good practice guide for practitioners working with young adults with multiple needs. It was compiled using the views of young adults and a range of professionals who work with them every day. Towards a Shared Future is a guide for commissioners, informed by policy analysis and interviews with those with responsibility for planning and delivering services. The guides show how getting support right for young people at this crucial age can make a big difference, with better life chances for the young people themselves, and major savings for the public purse and the tax payer. To find out more about Revolving Doors Agency's Transition to Adulthood work and download the documents, go to http://www.revolving-doors.org.uk/policy--research/policy-projects/transition-to-adulthood/
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Young, Adult and No Support: The entitlements of young adults to care in the community
Commissioned by the Barrow Cadbury Trust as part of the Transition to adulthood (T2A) Alliance this report was produced by the Howard League's young adult legal team based on the experience and evidence from their casework. It is intended to be a guide for practitioners who work with vulnerable young adults (see http://www.howardleague.org/publications-youngpeople/).
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Policy, purpose and pragmatism: dilemmas for voluntary and community organisations working with black young people affected by crime
Voluntary and community organisations working with black young people affected by crime face making `tragic bargains in their constant struggle for sustainability,' according to new research funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust. The research, based on detailed interviews in four cities in England, includes extensive first-hand accounts from representatives of voluntary and community organisations.
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Comparing coercive and non-coercive interventions
The incidence of imprisonment for under-18s in England and Wales is one of the highest in the world. This is the second of three briefings the Centre is publishing as part of its contribution to the Transition to Adulthood Alliance, supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust. The report shows resorting to incarceration and strict control has little or no benefit in reducing reconviction. The report recommends more rational and effective approaches to working with young people which are more humane and cost-effective than a reliance on the ever-increasing investment in institutions and mechanisms of control.
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Risky people or risky societies? Rethinking interventions for young adults in transition
This is the first of three briefings the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has published as part of its contribution to the Transition to Adulthood Alliance, supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust. In this briefing Richard Garside, the Centre's director, critiques policies informed by risk factor analysis that seek to prevent crime by intervening early in the lives of troubled children. He also proposes a different way to think about risk as a social force rather than an individual pathology.
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From criminal justice to social justice: rethinking approaches to young adults subject to criminal justice control
This briefing offers some proposals for what might be involved in a wholesale shift in governmental approaches to young adults subject to criminal justice control. It makes the case for interventions with young adults that place social justice, not criminal justice, at their heart. This is the third of three briefings the Centre is publishing as part of its contribution to the Transition to Adulthood Alliance, supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust
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The use of the Community Order and Suspended Sentence Order for Young Adult Offenders
The report examines the use of the Community Order and Suspended Sentence Order for adults aged between 18 and 24 and finds that there is a heavy reliance on unpaid work programmes and much less use of education, training and employment programmes and substance misuse programmes despite the fact that young adults have distinct needs in these areas. The report, supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, says there has been 'little innovation in the practical application of the new sentencing arrangements for young adults with the Community Order appearing to mirror the old community sentences'.
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Universities of Crime: Young Adults, the Criminal Justice System and Social Policy
A report by the Transition to Adulthood Alliance highlighting the gaps in policy and service provision for young adults in the criminal justice system. Young adults make up more than a third of those sentenced to prison and have some of the highest re-offending rates of any group, yet the current policy approach to them is confused and ineffective
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Matrix Economic analysis of interventions for young adult offenders
A report summarizing the economic analysis of alternative interventions for young adult offenders by Matrix Evidence.
The Refugee and Migrant Centre (RMC) was founded six years ago…