This online launch event will share key insights from the Nuffield-Foundation funded project on Disrupting the Routes between Care and Custody for Girls and Women. The project, led by Lancaster University in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Bristol, has explored the neglected issue of girls and women who move between the care and criminal justice systems.

Launching their final report, the project team will present key findings from the research, which has sought to amplify the voices of those rarely heard. The research draws on findings from interviews with imprisoned women who have been in care, and with girls and young women with care-experience and youth justice contact in the community. It further draws on interviews with a range of professionals working across the care and criminal justice systems, and on analysis of local protocols aimed at preventing the unnecessary criminalisation of children in care.

The event will take place online over Microsoft Teams. It will be introduced by Professor John Drew CBE (Prison Reform Trust) and include talks from Dr Claire Fitzpatrick (Lancaster University), Dr Katie Hunter (Lancaster University), Dr Julie Shaw (Liverpool John Moores University), Dr Jo Staines (University of Bristol) and Tassie Ghilani (HM Prison and Probation Service). This will be followed by a Q&A session where attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions.

Speakers

Professor John Drew CBE is a Senior Associate at the Prison Reform Trust and the former Chief Executive of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales. John chairs the Youth Offending Service Management Boards in Birmingham and Surrey.

Dr Claire Fitzpatrick is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Lancaster University Law School and the Principal Investigator on the Disrupting the Routes between Care and Custody project

Tassie Ghilani is a Policy Advisor for HM Prison and Probation Service and a Criminology student. She uses her lived experience of the care and criminal justice systems to influence and propel changes for care leavers in custody.

Dr Katie Hunter is a Research Fellow at Lancaster University. Her current ADR UK-funded research involves using linked MoJ/DfE data to explore the intersections between ethnicity, care experience and criminal justice involvement.

Dr Julie Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University. A former probation officer, she has worked with care-experienced children and adults.

Dr Jo Staines is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies and Youth Justice at the University of Bristol; her research focuses on children and young people’s experiences of care and criminal justice.

Project Website: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/care-custody/

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