Season's meetings

Here's a run down of where we've been:

• Research and Policy Associate, Catherine Heard, attended the Probation Institute conference. You can read about the conference and download the programme here.
• Matt Ford, our Research and Policy Assistant,  went to a Transition to Adulthood Alliance members meeting on Tuesday, 9 December. There was an interesting presentation by the Black Training and Enterprise Group about The Young Review which they carried out. After that there was a talk by the Centre for Justice Innovation 'problem solving justice'.
• Senior Research Associate, Rebecca Roberts, attended the launch of The Young Review into the over-representation of young black and/or Muslim men in the penal system. Read more about it here.
• Our director Richard Garside spent an afternoon in a 'causal mapping' workshop with a number of other policy experts, as part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation anti-poverty strategy programme.
• Richard and Tammy McGloughlin, our publications manager, went to HMP Grendon to meet with the governor, Jamie Bennett, and colleagues, to discuss the prison's therapeutic approach.