what we’ve learned about learning: inside and out -prisons, community and support needs
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What we’ve learned about learning: Inside and Out-Prisons, Community and Support Needs
Learning in a Development Role
Lynn Jolly, Community Justice Services Manager:
from• Philosophy and Ethics• Criminology and Law• Probation and the Public Sectorto• the Third Sector landscape• diversification and specialism• disability, risk and telling the truth
Learning in a Development Role
Cornerstone-the organisational learning
• Care and Support culture and history• Learning Disability as core identity• Transition from charity to ‘business’• Formal forensic support services• Generic services include potential offending behaviour• Community Justice as a new development
Learning in a Development Role
Assets• Knowledge/skill base around learning disability support• Knowledge/skill base around offending behaviour, risk
assessment, risk enablement• Person centred
Deficits• Traditional model• Culture clash• Funding jungle
The Person at the Centreof Person Centred-who is she?
Mapping exercise-Cornerstone Scotland:
• 40% of services had ‘offending’ component
• not identified as ‘Forensic’ or ‘Community Justice’
• SPS – 2%, 7% or 25%
• screening/diagnosis: what and how?
The Person at the centre of Person Centred-who is she?
Keeping it simple: a partner of the prison
• a screening tool that works
• support provision that meets need not outcomes
• friends in the community
• tough love
The Person at the Centre of Person Centred-who is she?
The Product: Positive Tracks and Partnership Project
• housing, life, employment support service
• Partnerships with SPS, Police, Local Authorities
• expansion into mental health and addictions
• engage or else!!
If we’d known then what we know now….
…we’d do exactly the same thing:
• screening works both ways-who knew?!
• housing is the X factor and not always for the reasons you think
• everyone loves boundaries but no one gets a job
If we’d known then what we know now…..
it wouldn’t have hurt so much….or would it?
• the landscape can be treacherous and you need a good compass
• the customer is always the customer but who is right?
• voluntary sector or arm of the state?
If we’d known then what we know now…….
A letter from America:
• disability/difficulty/impairment-a model that works
• diversion in Court-does it help or hinder?
• Delancey Street, USA-an example or a caution?
Learning more and knowing less-Conclusions?
• Throughcare is social-need is need
• The person at the centre is a whole one
• Friends and enemies don’t wear badges
• Risk is real and happens to real people
• Partnership is for swans
Book Learning
Tom Tyler: Why People Obey the Law; Procedural Justice and Social Identity (2002)
Michael Sandel: Justice; The Case Against Perfection (2007)
Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour
Hazel Kemshall: Risk and Welfare; Understanding Risk in Criminal Justice (2008)