Guest Blog - Insights

Guest Blog

Welcome to our guest blog where HMPPS staff and our partners across the public, private, and voluntary sector will be sharing knowledge, ideas, and best practice, as well as updates on new projects.

Promoting The Evidence Base For High-Quality Probation Services

Dr Robin Moore | March 17, 2021

‘An effective probation service values knowledge and the ability to use knowledge. Effective organisations are based upon the intelligence to transform information into ideas… The research into "What Works" offers […]

It Isn't complicated!

By Terry Williams | HMPPS

March 15, 2021

Rehabilitative Culture | Security

Ministry of Justice publish new Areas of Research Interest statement

By Evidence and Partnerships Hub | MoJ

March 12, 2021

Learning as we Deliver Prison and Probation Services Through a Pandemic

By Gill Attrill | HMPPS

February 10, 2021

COVID-19 | HMPPS | Prisons

COVID-19 - An Insider's Perspective

By An Insights Contributor | HMP Stocken

February 9, 2021

COVID-19 | HMPPS | Service user involvement

Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time

By Professor Ben Crewe | Prison Research Centre, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

January 31, 2021

Academic | Prison | Prisoner Support | Research

Five-Minute Intervention (FMI) Goes Down-Under!

By Sarah Daniels | HMPPS

January 3, 2021

Evidence Based Practice | Interventions | Prison

Engaging & Supporting Care Leavers in Custody.

By Gail Kirkby | NEPACS

November 12, 2020

Care Leavers | Leaving Care | Prisoner Support

Care Leavers in Custody -An Inside View from The Outside

By Tusnyme Ghilani | Student of Crimonology, De Montfort University

November 6, 2020

Care Leavers | Leaving Care | Prison & Probation | Service user involvement

The true reality of domestic abuse during the current pandemic is a cause for concern for our society

By Carl Hall | Kent Surrey & Sussex Community Rehabilitation Company

October 26, 2020

Domestic Abuse | Pandemic | Probation | Rehabilitation | Victim support

Helping to Rehabilitate Residents at HMP Berwyn…One Pie at a Time.

By Lee Jaszczuk | HMP Berwyn

October 23, 2020

Catering | Prison

How Can We Make Insights Bigger and Better?

By Nic Bellamy | Insights Group, HMPPS

October 2, 2020

Protecting Psychological Well-being During Covid 19

By Georgia Barnett | HMPPS

September 24, 2020

COVID-19 | Prison | Probation | Wellbeing

Procedural Justice: Voice, Neutrality, Trustworthy Motives, and Respect

By Flora Fitzalan Howard | Insights Group, HMPPS

September 4, 2020

Evidence Based Practice | Procedural Justice

Shakespeare UnBard

By Rowan Mckenzie | Shakespeare UnBard

August 27, 2020

Art Therapy | Co-production | Rehabilitative Culture

Domestic Abuse: Responding in a Changed World

By Jane Port | KSS CRC

August 21, 2020

COVID-19 | Domestic Violence | Learning & Development | Probation

Buddies, The Front Line Workers Behind Bars

By Liz Ropschitz | RECOOP

August 10, 2020

COVID-19 | Peer Support | Prisoner Support

Hull TV: Thinking Differently about Prison Communications

By Tony Oliver | HMP Hull

August 6, 2020

Communication | Prison

‘Offering a Helping Hand’ to Families of People Sentenced to IPP

By Dr Harry Annison | University of Southamption Law School

August 3, 2020

Criminal Justice Charity | Family Support | Prisoner Support

Locked up. Locked down. Locked out: A Record of Our Own Campaign is looking at the impact of Covid-19 in prison

By Diane Curry OBE, Khatuna Tsintsadze, & Yvonne MacNamara | A Record of Our Own

July 23, 2020

BAME | COVID-19

The Power of Human to Human Relationships

By Gethin Jones | Unlocking Potential

July 20, 2020

Lived experience | Relationships

Virtual Tour of HMP Stafford During Lockdown

By Ralph Lubkowski | HMP Stafford (now at HMP Hewell)

July 17, 2020

COVID-19 | Prison

Communicating with Young Adults about COVID-19 Guidelines

By Georgia Barnett | Insights Group, HMPPS

July 16, 2020

Communication | COVID-19 | Young Adults

The Prisons & Probation Ombudsman (PPO) in Lockdown

By Sue McAllister | PPO

July 14, 2020

COVID-19 | Prisons & Probation Ombudsman

The Uncomfortable Truth of our Personal Role in Combating Hate

By Rebecca Friel | Odd Arts

July 13, 2020

Extremism | Performing Arts | Radicalisation

Co-Production and People-Centred Practice - Why it's Important and How to Do it!

By Noreen Blanluet | Co-production Network for Wales

Co-production | Service user involvement

A Visit to Parliament...Virtually!

By Stephen Hubbard | HMPPS

Ministers | Parliament

HMP Guys Marsh: Prison During Lockdown

By Ian Walters | HMP Guys Marsh

June 22, 2020

COVID-19 | Prison

The Value of Lived Experience in the Criminal Justice System

By Nina Champion | Criminal Justice Alliance

June 19, 2020

Criminal Justice Alliance | Employment | Lived experience

Rehabilitative Adjudications in Prison - What Difference Do They Make?

By Flora Fitzalan Howard & Dr Helen Wakeling | Insights Group, HMPPS

June 18, 2020

Evidence | Prison | Procedural Justice | Rehabilitative Culture

From Behind the Door...

By Michael Campbell-Brown | Deprofundis Ltd.

June 11, 2020

Early Days in Custody | Lived experience | Prison

Bringing Lived Experience into Criminal Justice Interventions: Co-creating Digital Media

By Jason Morris | HMPPS

Co-production | Digital Technology | Lived experience | Service user involvement

From the Kid who Caused Chaos to the Adult who has Influence

By Nadine Smith | Leaders Unlocked

Leaders Unlocked | Lived experience | Service user involvement

The ‘Hidden Addiction’ – Gambling-Related Harm and Criminal Justice

By Eartha Heptinstall & Urtha Felda | GamCare

Future Thinking on Risk Assessment and Risk Management

By Hazel Kemshall | De Montfort University

Academic | Desistance | Risk Assessment

Global Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19 on Domestic and Interpersonal Violence

By Florence Seemungal | University of Oxford

COVID-19 | Domestic Violence | International | Research

Learning from a Crisis

By Peter Dawson | Prison Reform Trust

Prison | Prison Reform Trust

The Start of a Beautiful Relationship!

By Nic Bellamy | HMPPS

Academy for Social Justice | Media

The Parole Board: Myths and Misunderstandings

By Martin Jones | Parole Board

Technology and Probation: A Better Norm?

By Jonathan Ley | Make Time Count

Artifical Intelligence | Digital Technology | Probation

Launch of InsightsOnline!

By Nic Bellamy | HMPPS

Insights20 postponed

By Nic Bellamy | HMPPS

March 18, 2020

Tickets are live!!

By Nic Bellamy | HMPPS

March 6, 2020

Insights20 launch!

By Nic Bellamy | HMPPS

February 21, 2020

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By @HmppsInsights' own fantastic Georgia and Helen 🥰

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[email protected] research by @helen_wakeling & Georgia Barnett finds brief psychological interventions for women in prison are promising, but struggle to make a difference in the face of the structural disadvantages faced on release. https://www.russellwebster.com/women-released-from-prison-face-structural-disadvantage/

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