Revolving Doors

🚨 Revolving Doors Presents: #BeyondTheCycle 🚨 Following yesterday's historic election result, we offer our strategic roadmap to transform the justice system and end the revolving door of crisis and crime. Coproduced with our lived experience members, this plan offers actionable, evidence-based solutions to divert individuals experiencing multiple disadvantages out of the criminal justice system towards better lives. We know what works. This comprehensive plan outlines four critical steps to create a fairer, more effective system for everyone. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ekQmXTRU Our four key steps for change: Strengthen Community Sentences: Enhance the effectiveness and reach of community-based sentences, providing meaningful alternatives to custody and reducing reoffending rates. Expand Diversion Initiatives: Increase the availability of diversion programs that address underlying issues, such as mental health and substance use, keeping people out of the criminal justice system altogether. Cabinet-Level Focus on Root Causes of Offending: Establish a dedicated, high-level focus on tackling the root causes of crime, ensuring a coordinated and comprehensive approach across government departments. Achieve Change for a System Under Pressure: Harness the power and potential of lived experience involvement to address staffing issues and contributing to trauma informed services, alleviating the pressures on our overstretched justice system and ensuring it works more efficiently and humanely for all involved. 📢 Join us to make a difference 📢 We need your support to make these crucial changes a reality. Share this post, read our blog, and help us advocate for a justice system that prioritises rehabilitation and addresses the root causes of offending. Together, we can create a safer, more just society for all. #JusticeReform #CommunitySentences #DiversionPrograms #RootCauses #SystemChange #RevolvingDoors

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of the Revolving Doors Academy, starting in January 2025! 🎉 This project is incredibly close to my heart, as it has been co-created by and for people with lived experience to provide practical skills for meaningful engagement and leadership. Over six weeks, participants will explore 12 tailored modules designed to build essential abilities in communication, self-management, and influencing—key skills for becoming active and impactful members and leaders within Revolving Doors and beyond. Led by lived experience peer trainers and supported by myself and my colleagues, the program is designed to empower participants every step of the way. The journey ends with a special graduation celebration and lunch, marking the achievements of everyone involved. I’m so proud to be part of an initiative that amplifies the strength and urgency of lived experience voices in transforming the justice system and beyond. If you’re interested or would like to know more, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me - natalia.thomas-jikiemi@revolving-doors.org.uk. Let’s make change happen together! 💪

Excited to share with you all that Revolving Doors, are now recruiting for the Revolving Doors Academy in January 2025. Myself and the team have been working tirelessly on the Academy for next years cohort and I cannot wait to see everyone in their peer trainer roles and see the whole Academy brought to life ! Please take the opportunity to read about what it entails and what we are offering, especially if you have lived experience of the Criminal Justice System / know someone who does as this presents a brilliant new opportunity.

📚 Join the Revolving Doors Academy - starting January 2025. Co-created by and for people with lived experience and covering a range of the practical skills needed to engage effectively with our work, the Academy will help participants develop the abilities they need to become a Revolving Doors member and leader. We’re offering a six week course with 12 separate modules - including a graduation celebration and lunch at the end. Led by lived experience peer trainers as well as Revolving Doors staff, each module has been tailor-made to cover a key skill or ability, with particular focus on communication, self-management and influencing. By signing up you have the opportunity to be part of this exciting opportunity which aims to cement the role, strength and urgency of lived experience voices in the justice system and beyond. To find out more please email our Member Engagement Coordinator, Natalia at natalia.thomas-jikiemi@revolving-doors.org.uk.

📢 Great conversations ongoing in today's Southern Forum on community sentences. Members have been joined by Chief Inspector of Probation Martin Jones CBE for a rich and insightful discussion covering the range of experiences people have had whilst on community orders, and how they can be improved in light of the recently announced Sentencing Review and Justice Select Committee investigation into reoffending and rehabilitation. Follow Revolving Doors on LinkedIn or subscribe to our newsletter to hear more about the findings of today's meeting ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/en7hsbkj

🎉 We are so incredibly proud of Revolving Doors lived experience member Caroline. Yesterday, she spoke to a packed audience at Buckinghamshire New University about using her personal experiences of the revolving door of crisis and crime to advocate for mental health support. How lucky are we to have such fantastic members?

📢 "Are public expectations of what can be achieved through community supervision realistic and are recommendations being directed to the correct services?" Revolving Doors trustee Tessa Webb OBE worked in the Probation Service for over 40 years, including leading on localism and improving the connectivity between probation and local services when she served as a director of the Probation Chiefs Association. Drawing on her deep-rooted knowledge and experience of the probation service, its staff and those it supports, Tessa has written about the public narratives around probation - and whether it's time for a shift in thinking if we want a service that works for everyone. Read now ⬇ https://lnkd.in/g38dXq_F

Thank you Revolving Doors Lauren Bennett - we really appreciate the contribution of the Levelling the Playing Field REDI & 'Sport for Development' specialist delivery organisations and how together, we are demonstrating 'Promising' evidence within this important document. The final University of Birmingham Levelling the Playing Field (LtPF) via Professor Joan Duda and Dr Hannah Hammond research reports, are due out shortly. Across this report and evidence within it, all LtPF and respected organisations mentioned within this report are doing incredible work, and together this demonstrates the #CompoundEffect of us all doing constant 'great work'. Being the only #SportForDevelopment approach mentioned within this document, it is also a firm reminder and 'Call to Action' for all Sport for Development organisations. I know there are so many great organisations, delivering amazing things within this space, and all need to come from 'below the radar' - to provide even more evidence for reaching all people, equally. Sport England Sport Wales Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) NHS England #HealthInJustice HMPPS Insights HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) ConnectSport CIC Comic Relief London Marathon Foundation Department for Culture, Media and Sport UK Home Office

We’re thrilled to see the release of the Youth Justice Board and Revolving Doors report on Addressing Racial Disparity in the Youth Justice System. Dr Hannah Hammond’s work with the Levelling the Playing Field project was held up as one of the promising practice examples within the report. Dr Hammond told us... ‘It’s great to see the Levelling the Playing Field (LtPF) project being celebrated as a good practice example to address racial disparity in the Youth Justice System. I’m particularly pleased to see the Youth Justice Board recognise the importance of increased connectedness and trust with local criminal justice agencies as a key outcome of the project. Relationships between ethnic minority children and young people and justice agencies were strengthened by an impressive Community of Practice, which was created and facilitated by the LtPF project. I am excited to await launch the full report which utilises a multi-method approach and a strong theoretical foundation to better understand the mechanisms underpinning the power of sport to promote desistance from crime.’ I want our work to amplify the lived experience voices of the marginalised groups that LtPF seeks to support, and to offer tangible recommendations for tackling inequalities in Sport and Justice.’ Read the report here https://lnkd.in/e-4KAJAK Revolving Doors Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) #levellingtheplayingfield #youthjusticeboard #allianceofsport #sportforgood Dr Hannah Hammond

💜 "I have emerged from the darkest moments of my life stronger, more determined, and fully committed to change. Today, I live free from crime and alcohol, driven by a sense of purpose that once seemed unreachable. This journey hasn’t been easy, but the transformation has been life-changing. I now have clarity, confidence, and a foundation of stability that shapes each day." We're very proud to share this blog lived experience member Caroline wrote for The Magistrates' Association about her transformative experience of recovery whilst completing a Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR). Magistrates' Association members can log in to watch our webinar to learn more about the benefits of MHTRs. The webinar also covered the criteria for referring people to the MHTR team for assessment and the role of pre-sentence reports. Read now ⬇ https://lnkd.in/edFwKYbE