Welcome to HMPPS Insights
In-person tickets close midday on Friday 31 October!
General release tickets for those working in the wider Criminal Justice System are now live, but in-person tickets close midday on Friday 31 October.
VIP tickets are now closed, and lucky winners will find out if they have been successful soon.
The Insights Festival will take place on 17 – 28 November 2025.
The Insights Festival brings together prison, probation, youth services, voluntary sector and wider justice services to learn from insight, data and evidence, share, connect and celebrate the great work we do.
Find out more about this year’s festival, or head straight to the Festival ticket page.
What is HMPPS Insights?
HMPPS Insights brings people together from across the Criminal Justice System to learn, share, connect and celebrate the excellent and innovative work that we do.
We are delighted to bring you the Insights Festival, as well as a range of exciting Events and Guest Blog articles throughout the year, created by you, for you.
What is the Insights Festival?
The Insights Festival is an award-winning programme of events which aims to showcase the breadth of innovative work taking place across prison, probation, youth services, voluntary sector and wider justice services.
HMPPS Insights Festival at a glance
- Four festivals since 2019
- Almost 18k tickets booked over 358 events at Insights23
- Proud winner of the 2022 Inspire Justice Award
Latest Insights Blog Posts
View our most recent guest blogs, where HMPPS staff and our partners across the public, private, and voluntary sector will be share knowledge, ideas, and best practice, as well as updates on new projects.
Sam Clifton, Head of Professional Standards and Behaviour (PSB) Group in HMPPS talks about why professional standards and behaviour is important and how you can learn more about it at Insights25
Published on September 29, 2025
Read full articlePeter McIntyre is the General Manager at the 3Pillars project and a qualified psychotherapist and armed forces veteran with a particular interest in reaching out to people with compassion and empathy to assist, advise, counsel and mentor them so they can see themselves from a new perspective.
Published on September 23, 2025
Read full articleVincent Kelly is a custodial manager at HMP Wormwood Scrubs with over 25 years of experience of working in the closed estate. Here he describes a visit to the Military Corrective Training Centre (MCTC- formerly known as “The Glasshouse”) where he cast an expert eye across some of the excellent work taking place there, built some bridges and used this to benefit learning in HMPPS.
Published on July 3, 2025
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