Become a catalyst for social change with the Innovation Unit Design Academy 🚀 Join us to learn Service Design methods and create meaningful impact in your work. Don’t miss out, there are only a few spots left! 💡iuda.org.uk💡 #IUDA #SocialChange #ServiceDesign

We are delighted to announce lucie Russell as our new CEO Lucie brings her wealth of experience and passion for change to User Voice from 1st October Read more here: shorturl.at/620hH Redthread Catch22 Criminal Justice Alliance AYJ

Today we are excited to be with the 3rd #GoodLivesGM System Shifting Leadership Collaborative cohort🚀 With investment from Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service & Greater Manchester Probation Service, leaders from these organisations and beyond are coming together to tell their stories of leadership. 🧵⤵️

Greater Manchester Combined Authority Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Greater Manchester Probation Service “Find your tribe” 🫂 We're feeling energised hearing Ruth Ibegbuna’s powerful leadership story. Reflecting on her core values of collaboration and connection, #GreaterManchester leaders are sharing their stories and connecting to their shared ambitions. 🧵⤵️

The Always Hope (Innovation_Unit) programme helps professionals better support young men with care experience during and after release. Probation Practitioner Ellie Carr, who took part in the West Midlands pilot, shares why this approach works ⤵️ buff.ly/3XCyw6z

Was great to join the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman’s 30th birthday celebrations this morning. Their work is vital to ensuring transparency and boosting confidence in our justice system.

This week's #SecretLifeofPrisons is a truly special one. It's all about the co-host of the podcast paula harriott 💙 20 years ago she was in a prison cell. Today she is the CEO of Unlock and a podcasting star 🌟 It's an electrifying listen: secretlifeofprisons.libsyn.com/from-cell-to-c…

Our Exec Director Nerys & our Regional Ops Manager in retail - Trish are running Royal Parks Half today for The Children's Society & all the work we do The Children's Society - National Programmes to build a society for all children - the ☀️ is out - join us in wishing them all the best 🏃‍♀️ justgiving.com/page/nerys-ant…

And they smashed it ! Congratulations Nerys & Trish for finishing Royal Parks Half with big smiles on your faces and running for The Children's Society #TeamTCS

👏 Good luck to our Deputy CEO, DCC Maggie Blyth, as she takes up the role of interim Chief Constable at Gloucestershire Constabulary next week. gloucestershire-pcc.gov.uk/keeping-update…

The Probation Institute welcomes the Sentencing Review to be led by David Gauke. Please make sure this review is genuinely about sentencing not just about prisons and focusses significantly on Probation and building resources in the community to support rehabilitation.

.Koestler Arts always thought provoking. It’s good to be able to provide feedback that goes directly to the artist. This poem is a reminder of how much jargon is used and leaving us to consider the impact.

. Innovation_Unit matt clayton 🇺🇦 Jessie Ben-Ami enjoyed the opportunity to reflect on our Always Hope innovation journey. So much learning, we have come so far but still lots we want to do #collaboration #relationalsocialworkpodcast

. Again and again I see the value of reflective practice in different organisations. People sharing, learning and providing each other with support. It’s a privilege to facilitate these discussions for people coping in tough environments. Their optimism and passion is inspiring.

. matt clayton 🇺🇦 A privilege to take part in your Podcast series. Jessie and I welcomed the opportunity to reflect on our Always Hope journey. Innovation_Unit.open.spotify.com/episode/58OLpj…

🌱 New Report: "Growing Stronger Systems of Support from the field of Domestic & Family Violence" In partnership with Paul Ramsay Foundation, we’ve released insights on how Australia can strengthen its response to diverse victims & help-seekers. 📖 ⬇️ innovationunit.org/projects/recom…

🎧In this #RadicalReformers episode, Naomi Hulston talks to Andrew Laird about the importance of being close to the communities you support, as she says, “To really understand what people need, you have to get to know them”: buff.ly/4j208ff #CommunityEngagement Catch22

Today I chaired the first Women’s Justice Board which will look at how we steer women away from a life of crime. Many women in prison are victims themselves. More than half are mums. Prison often fails to address what lies behind their offending. theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

The important report of the independent sentencing review on history and trends in sentencing paves the way for the review to bring forward bold proposals in the spring to place our use of prison on a more sustainable and proportionate footing prisonreformtrust.org.uk/prt-comment-in…

What can the prison system in England and Wales learn from the Netherlands? A country not long ago renting out its unused facilities to other countries is now having to consider putting mattresses in cells to increase its own capacity. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/05/dutch-…