What we’ve learned about learning: Inside and Out -Prisons, Community and Support Needs.

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)