Building hope: The future of education in the criminal justice system

The Centre for Education and Criminal Justice presents a national summer conference focused on advancements in education within the criminal justice system.

This conference welcomes people with lived experience, charity leaders, local authorities, education providers, prison educators, HMPPS staff, academics, policy representatives and practitioners to come together to network and collaborate in the development in education provision for people in criminal justice settings.

The themes for the conference are: digital learning and provision; neurodiversity; and embedding literacy, numeracy and information and communication technology (ICT).

The conference aims to:

• Develop an ongoing forum that closes the research-to-practice gap within the fields of digital provision, neurodiversity and embedding literacy, numeracy and ICT in prison education.
• Hear the voices of people with lived experience of the criminal justice system (CJS) and to exchange knowledge and best practice to better serve at-risk communities affected by the CJS.
• Showcase innovative and impactful work in prison education, crime prevention and reduction, and training and employment post-prison.

Speakers

• Jon Collins, CEO Prisoners’ Education Trust
• Dr Victoria Knight, De Montfort University
• James Tweed, Founder, Coracle
• Ruth Mcfarlane, Co-Director, Doing What Really Matters
• Dan Whyte, Co-Director, Doing What Really Matters
• Lucy Chadwick, Neurodiversity Specialist, HMPPS
• Mandy Manson, Neurodiversity Lead, HMP High Down
• Michael Lockwood, Oswin Project
• Annick Platt, Novus
• Maria Navarro, Ofsted
• David Kendall, Penned Up
• José Aguiar, Teaching and Development Lead, HMP Pentonville

Panel

• Alison Drew, St. Giles’ Trust
• Fiona Sample, CEO The Oswin Project
• David Breakspear, Author

This in-person event will be particularly useful for people with lived experience, charity leaders, local authorities, education providers, prison educators, HMPPS staff, academics, policy representatives and practitioners.

Please request a place via email: ioe.educrimjustice@ucl.ac.uk 

Related links

• Centre for Education and Criminal Justice
• Department of Psychology and Human Development