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Tom Jackson – CJG – 28/09/2021
Background on project through a partnership lens and the development of the data sharing agreement.
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Karen Baxter – CJG
The Women’s Justice Cross Party Group has been meeting since 2018. The purpose of the Group is to “Focus on every aspect of women’s experience of the justice system.” It is made up of Members of the Scottish parliament (MSPs) across the political parties represented in the Scottish Parliament, and representatives from the other organisations.
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Anne Pinkman – CJG
To raise awareness and illustrate of the issues around the impact imprisonment can have on children when their mother is imprisoned and why it is so important that mothers at risk of custody tell their solicitor or social worker that they have children a series of 4 films were launched earlier this year (2021). These films were produced for Sentencers, Advocates, Defence Agents, Criminal Justice Social Workers and mothers at risk if custody. There is also a stand-alone film that tells the true moving account of the enormous impact a prison sentence had on a mother and her 2 boys, entitled Ang’s story.
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Anne Pinkman – CJG
To raise awareness and illustrate of the issues around the impact imprisonment can have on children when their mother is imprisoned and why it is so important that mothers at risk of custody tell their solicitor or social worker that they have children a series of 4 films were launched earlier this year (2021). These films were produced for Sentencers, Advocates, Defence Agents, Criminal Justice Social Workers and mothers at risk if custody. There is also a stand-alone film that tells the true moving account of the enormous impact a prison sentence had on a mother and her 2 boys, entitled Ang’s story.
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Karen Baxter – CJG
Community Justice Glasgow facilitates the Glasgow Working group on Women and Offending, which brings together partners from across the city who are involved in working with women who have contact with justice services. This includes universal services as well as dedicated community justice services.
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Tracy McFall – GWGWO – 28/09/2021
A retrospective account of The Glasgow Working Group on Women & Offending.
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Tracy McFall – GWGWO
The COSLA Excellence awards celebrate the very best in Scottish local government. The 2019 awards ceremony was held on Thursday 10 October in St. Andrew’s and Tomorrow’s Women Glasgow (TWG) was shortlisted as one of the best three nominations within Category 2: Achieving Better Outcomes in Partnership. TWG won first prize, the Gold Award, on the night!
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SWGWO – February 2015
Briefing on the Female Custodial Estate outlining concerns.
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SWGWO
United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules).
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Scottish Prison Service (SPS)
The Cabinet Secretary announced that the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has acquired a site in Maryhill, Glasgow, with the intention of building one of the first Community Custody Unit (CCU) for women in Scotland there. The CCU will be based on the site of the former Maryhill Health Centre. With a second site to be identified in the city of Dundee.
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Rhona Innes – Shine Women’s Mentoring Service
Shine worked closely with partners to create liberation packs which included the provision of phones for women being liberated from prison since “gate pick-up’s” on day of release was no longer possible.
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Transform Drug Policy Foundation
Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT) involves the provision of medical-grade heroin – also called diamorphine – to registered patients as part of a treatment programme. Patients attend a clinic once or twice a day, and use their prescriptions on site, under medical supervision. It is normally for people who have not had success with other treatments.
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Amy Rew – Glasgow Girls Club
The Glasgow Girls Club (GGC) is born from our sister organisation based in New York (NYC). In 2013 I had the opportunity to spend a year in NYC, where I was deeply moved by the work of the Lower East Side Girls Club (LESGC). LESGC is a non-profit that gives local young women a place to connect, thrive and grow.
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Linda McLaughlin – North East Criminal Justice Women’s Team
Article including case studies showing positive outcomes for service users.
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CJG – 2018
The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act in 2015 requires the Partnership to publish a plan that sets out our shared priorities for the city, where we plan to make improvements and over time show that we have made these improvements. This document sets out the priority and focus areas from October 2017 onwards.
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Scottish Government – 2012
Final report of the Commission on Women Offenders, which was established to examine how female offenders are dealt with in the criminal justice system.
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Scottish Government – 21/04/2020
A number of short-term prisoners nearing the end of their time in custody are to be released early, under measures designed to help tackle the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
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Scottish Government – 08/02/2022
The Scottish Governments transformative vision of the future justice system for Scotland, spanning the full journey of criminal, civil and administrative justice, with a focus on creating safer communities and shifting societal attitudes and circumstances which perpetuate crime and harm.
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Justice Committee – 26/11/2019
At its meeting on 11 April 2019, the Justice Committee agreed to carry out a short inquiry to look at key issues relating to the provision of mental health services and secure care places for children and young people in Scotland, the current and future capacity and structure of secure care. The inquiry also touches upon the care of young people imprisoned in HMP YOI Polmont.
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Independent Care Review – 2020
The Promise reflected what over 5,500 care experienced children and adults, families and the paid and unpaid workforce told the Care Review in the hope that Scotland was listening.
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Improvement Service – 19/12/2020
Learning report outlining the key barriers and enablers and future action and support highlighted by participants during discussions with a number of key messages being identified throughout the event.
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Improvement Service – 08/12/2020
This learning event brought together over 100 attendees across the statutory and third sectors from local authority areas across Scotland, encompassing a wide range of professionals working to improve outcomes for women and children affected by VAW in their local authority area. Participants included practitioners and frontline workers, service managers, policy leads, senior leaders and Elected Members.
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Improvement Service – 28/01/2021
This learning event brought together over 100 attendees across statutory and third sectors, encompassing a wide range of professionals working to improve outcomes for people involved in the justice system in their local authority area. Participants included practitioners and frontline workers, service managers, policy leads, senior leaders and Elected Members.
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Improvement Service – 23/02/2021
This learning event brought together over 100 attendees, encompassing a wide range of professionals working to improve outcomes for people requiring support from housing and homelessness services in their local authority area who wish to learn more about trauma informed practice, systems and services. Participants included practitioners and frontline workers, service managers, policy leads, senior leaders and Elected Members.
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Improvement Service – 23/02/2021
This learning event brought together over 100 attendees, encompassing a wide range of professionals working to improve outcomes for people requiring support from adult social care services in their local authority area who wish to learn more about trauma-informed practice, systems and services. The adult social care sector sits across public, third and private sectors and provides a broad range of support, including care homes, care at home, personal assistants, and unpaid carers. Participants included frontline workers, service managers, policy leads, senior leaders and Elected Members.
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Improvement Service – 23/02/2021
Summary of key learning from 20-21 deep dive event series.
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Prison Reform Trust – October 2017
The impact on children of parental imprisonment is profound – this briefing looks at working to reduce the female prison population in Scotland. Updated account of March report.
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Prison Reform Trust – 2014
This report, based on information gathered by Soroptimists across the UK in 2013-14 about what happens in their local areas to women who offend, or are at risk of offending, highlights progress and good practice whilst identifying constraints, gaps and shortcomings in local service provision.
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Prison Reform Trust – 2017
The purpose of this briefing is to highlight the links between women’s victimisation and their offending and make recommendations that will help break the cycle. The intention is neither to pathologise nor to exculpate women offenders affected by domestic abuse, but to understand the factors underlying their offending and ensure that these are fully and fairly taken into account in decision-making by criminal justice agencies.
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Scottish Sentencing Council – 06/03/2017
The purpose and outcomes for the discussion event were to increase the Council’s and other attendees’ awareness and understanding of what rights children may have in respect of a parent who is being sentenced, whether the court would consider it to be mitigation for an offender to have caring responsibilities, he practice in other jurisdictions in relation to children and the sentencing of parents, whether the court has a role in ensuring support for dependants when a custodial sentence is imposed on a particular offender and, how information from the discussion event might be disseminated to the wider public by the Council, or reflected by the Council in guidelines or otherwise.
Report | Webpage | Women
NHS Education for Scotland
In 2016 NHS Education for Scotland was asked by the Scottish Government to develop a set of resources to promote and implement trauma informed practice within Scotland. This was due to the growing and recognition of the impact of traumatic experiences on people.
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Improvement Service – 19/12/2020
Speakers slides from event.
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Improvement Service – 08/12/2020
Speakers slides from event.
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Improvement Service – 28/01/2021
Speakers slides from event.
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Improvement Service – 23/02/2021
Speakers slides from event.
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Improvement Service – 08/12/2020
Speakers slides from event.
Legislation | Women
Legislation.gov.uk – 2016
This strategy provides a shared vision to help partners and communities work together effectively to improve community justice outcomes. The Community Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 places duties on statutory partners who have a key role to play in improving community justice outcomes.
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Legislation.gov.uk
The main purpose of the Act is to prevent the misuse of controlled drugs and achieves this by imposing a complete ban on the possession, supply, manufacture, import and export of controlled drugs except as allowed by regulations or by licence from the Secretary of State.
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Scottish Government
The aim of this is to help prevent reoffending and enable a further shift from short custodial sentences to more effective methods of addressing offending and rehabilitation, such as Community Payback Orders (CPOs).
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SWGWO
Leaflet produced by SWGWO, Scottish Community Justice Authorities, UKPAC and the Prison Reform Trust with information on Women offenders in Scotland.
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Scottish Prison Services
The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government and was first established in April 1993. Their Framework Document sets out the policy and resources framework set by Scottish Ministers within which the SPS operates. As an Executive Agency, the SPS is funded by the Scottish Government.
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Simon Community Scotland
The Simon Community is a charity which helps homeless people, taking its name from Simon of Cyrene.
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Housing First website
Housing First Scotland belongs to everyone who is helping Housing First become the first response for people whose homelessness is made harder by experiences such as trauma, addictions and mental health problems. Branching Out is the National Framework For Housing First in Scotland.
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Tomorrow’s Women Glasgow’s website.
Tomorrow’s Women Glasgow (TWG) are an innovative and unique Criminal Justice centre based in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. We work with women who have very complex needs and who are involved in the Criminal Justice system. Our main aim is to enable women to reduce their offending and to address their needs and issues that prevent them from living positive healthy lives.
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Outcomes Star
Outcomes Stars are evidence-based tools designed to support positive change and greater wellbeing, with scales presented in a star shape and measured on a clearly defined ‘Journey of Change’. The Outcomes Star is completed as part of conversations between individuals and support practitioners such as key workers.
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Outcomes Star
Outcomes Stars are evidence-based tools designed to support positive change and greater wellbeing, with scales presented in a star shape and measured on a clearly defined ‘Journey of Change’. The Outcomes Star is completed as part of conversations between individuals and support practitioners such as key workers.
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Venture Trust
Venture Trust is a registered charity that helps people going through difficult circumstances to make positive changes in their lives.
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Prison Reform Trust website
The state of our prisons is a fair measure of the state of our society. The Prison Reform Trust works to ensure they are just, humane and effective.
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Community Justice Scotland Trust website
Community Justice Scotland focuses on crime reduction and prevention. They develop and promote a National Strategy for Community Justice, making sure that people understand the benefits in areas like early intervention, prevention and community sentencing.
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Families Outside website
Families Outside is a national charity in Scotland that works solely to support children and families affected by imprisonment.
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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Health Improvement works to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals or communities through enabling and encouraging healthy choices as well as addressing underlying determinants of health such as poverty and lack of educational opportunities. They work with a wide range of partners to influence policy, service provision and wider environmental factors that help support positive health outcomes for our population, especially those in greatest need.
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Early Years Scotland
Early Years Scotland is committed to providing the very best start in life for every child in Scotland. They are the leading national third sector organisation for children pre-birth to 5. Their remit is broad although has a strong focus on the professionals and families who care for the youngest members of our communities.
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Justice for Women
Justice for Women is a feminist organisation that supports, and advocates on behalf of, women who have fought back against or killed violent male partners.
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GGC
Glasgow Girls Club engages and mentors girls and young women of disadvantaged areas of Glasgow. Working across multiple disciplines participants are supported to explore issues that affect both themselves and their communities, covering everything from cat-calling and positive body image to food justice and the role of the media.
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LESGC
The Lower Eastside Girls Club connects young women and gender-expansive youth of colour throughout New York City to healthy and successful futures through free, innovative year-round programming and mentoring.
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Cross Party Group on Womens Justice
The purpose of the Group is to focus on every aspect of women’s experience of the justice system.
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Scottish Government
Sentencing decisions are a matter for the courts and no sentence – either in custody or in the community – can eliminate the possibility of some individuals offending in the future. Community interventions, including community sentences, can help ensure offending and its causes are addressed while helping prevent reoffending and reducing victimisation.
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Scottish Government – 31/01/2022
The Scottish Governments work to prevent and reduce the negative impact of childhood adversity and trauma.
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Shine Women’s Mentoring Service – 30/09/2013
Video detailing the services Shine provides and partnerships they work with. Scotland’s national Women’s Mentoring Service for women within the criminal justice system. Shine is a Public Social Partnership delivered by: Sacro, Access to Industry, Apex Scotland, Barnardos Scotland, Circle Scotland, Turning Point Scotland, Venture Trust and The Wise Group. The service is supported by Scottish Prison Service, Association of Directors of Social Work and Scotland’s Community Justice Authorities. Shine is funded by: The Scottish Government, The Robertson Trust and SPS.
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Judicial Institute for Scotland 22/04/2021
The films for Sentencers are hosted by the Judicial Institute for Scotland to be used for training and awareness raising for all High Court judges and Sheriffs in Scotland. The film for Advocates, Defence Agents and Criminal Justice Social Workers is also hosted by the Judicial Institute for Scotland and Community Justice Scotland. Community Justice Scotland will use this film for training of Criminal Justice Social Workers and others involved in delivering support to women involved in offending (these are for internal use).
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Judicial Institute for Scotland 22/04/2021
A stand-alone film that tells the true moving account of the enormous impact a prison sentence had on a mother and her 2 boys, entitled Ang’s story.
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Tomorrow’s Women – 16/09/2019
Short animation film detailing the service that Tomorrow’s Women provide and the story of how the organisation was formed.
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Improvement Service – 08/12/2020
John Swinney discussing a trauma-informed approach to recovery.
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Improvement Service – 20/01/2021
Caroline Bruce introduction to the National Trauma Training Programme.
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Improvement Service – 20/01/2021
Ann Hayne reflection through a service users eyes of what it felt like dealing with domestic abuse and trauma through the global pandemic.
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Improvement Service – 20/01/2021
Sheila Noble discussing the journey in Fife to develop trauma informed approaches focusing on violence against women.
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Improvement Service – 19/03/2021
Jen Stewart giving a brief overview of the journey of Perth and Kinross in developing a trauma informed practice.
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Improvement Service – 19/03/2021
Questions and answers session from event.
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Improvement Service – 12/05/2021
Kate Wallace, welcoming and opening remarks from the justice event.
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Improvement Service – 12/05/2021
Dr Caroline Bruce discussing the importance of trauma-informed justice systems for victims and witnesses.
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Improvement Service – 02/03/2021
Kirsty Pate on taking a trauma-informed approach to criminal justice social work.
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Improvement Service – 12/05/2021
Yvonne Robson discussing mentoring support for women in the criminal justice system.
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Improvement Service – 12/05/2021
Questions and answers session from event.
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Improvement Service – 01/07/2021
Dr Caroline Bruce introduction to the national trauma training programme.
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Improvement Service – 01/07/2021
Kenny McGhee from CELCIS discussing the importance of a trauma-informed housing system for care-experienced young adults.
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Improvement Service – 01/07/2021
Kevin Anderson discussing developing trauma-informed housing services.
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Improvement Service – 01/07/2021
Shumela Ahmed on developing sanctuary as a trauma-informed housing association.
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Improvement Service – 01/07/2021
Sandra Brown discussing women affected by domestic abuse to strengthen housing pathways.
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Improvement Service – 01/07/2021
Questions and answers session from event.
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Improvement Service – 16/07/2021
Jess Alexander introduction to the national trauma training programme in adult social care.
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Improvement Service – 16/07/2021
Jessica Milburn discussing working in the adult social care sector during COVID-19.
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Improvement Service – 16/07/2021
Dr Claire Fyvie discussing what a trauma informed team is.
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Improvement Service – 16/07/2021
Dr Lisa Ronald on an introduction to the National Trauma Training Programme and opening doors to animation.
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Improvement Service – 16/07/2021
Dr Amy Homes discussing what trauma informed practice looks like.
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GGC – 14/12/2017
Sam telling her story to try and help others that find themselves in a similar situation.
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GGC – 06/06/2018
Two GGC members embarked on a journey to New York to find out what it meant to ‘Pure Love Yourself’ in the USA to try and turn this phrase from a negative to a positive to show there is nothing wrong with loving yourself.
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GGC – 2018
Video documenting their trip to New York to interview other young women to find out what their lifes where like, what their opinions where and what they could learn from each other.
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Glasgow Community Planning Partnership – 09/01/2020
These films were made by people with living and/or lived experience of the justice system as part of our commitment around engagement, one of those films features the Tomorrow’s Women Glasgow service through the eyes of those who benefit – the women themselves!
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Turning Point Scotland – 05/04/2019
What is 218? We believe that there are more effective ways to reduce reoffending than short term prison sentences. Turning Point Scotland 218 provides an alternative to custody for women in the justice system. We provide programmes of intensive support and group work to empower the women to address the root causes of their offending. With a view to support them to break the cycle of offending which results in the ‘revolving door’ syndrome of maintaining their involvement in the criminal justice system and prison service.
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Street Cones – 05/05/2021
StreetCones have been working with a group of women serving community service (unpaid work) as alternative to custody. With our support they have devised a stage play script which they recently read in front of a small invited audience. The hours spent in this 12 week module went toward their total hours allocated by the court.
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BBC – 01/02/2019
Samantha became homeless when she was 16. After low-level offending she faced being sent to prison for a longer sentence. Instead, she got the offer of probation and support through Glasgow charity Achieve More which runs dance and football training. She says: “It meant I could just get everything off my chest and I never had that before.”
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BBC – 01/02/2019
A hybrid in-person and online event to talk about Community Justice for women in Glasgow, facilitated by Street Cones, with contributions from Tomorrow’s Women Glasgow, 218, Shine, Glasgow Girl’s Club and Media Education also preview the latest ‘Shared Sentences’ film (Women in the Justice System).
